Three killed in US drone strike in Mir Ali


Strike a U.S. drone targeted a car killed at least three people Monday in Mir Ali, security officials said.The strike took place in the region of horses Khaider from Mir Ali area, 30 km (18 miles) east of Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan tribal region."U.S. drones fired four missiles at a car armed, killing three suspected insurgents," said a security official told AFP, adding that the drones were flying several in the area at the time of the attack.A security official confirmed last attack and the victims and said the identity of the gunmen who were killed in the raid were not immediately clear.Monday a U.S. drone strike is the 31st of its kind (calculated on the day) in Pakistan since 2012. So far this year, at least 222 people were killed and reportedly in such strikes.Washington is demanding for a long time that Pakistan take action against the Haqqanis, which accused the United States to attack the U.S. embassy in Kabul in September of last year, and acting like "arm real" for intelligence.Pakistan Pakistan turn demanded the Afghan and U.S. forces to do more to stop the Pakistani Taliban who crossing the border from Afghanistan to launch attacks on forces.There have had a significant increase in U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan since May, when a NATO summit in Chicago failed to reach a deal to end a six-month siege on transport convoys of supplies to coalition forces in Afghanistan . Islamabad and Washington is seeking to heal the rift in the fractious relationship between the two in recent months, with the reopening of the supply route and, after a series of crises in 2011 relations between the "war on terror" allies plunge.But drone attacks U.S. still controversial - it is unpopular in Pakistan, which it says violate its sovereignty and fan anti-American sentiment Nations, but U.S. officials said to believe that it is very important to give up.Washington see Pakistan belt northwest semi-autonomous tribal as a center main Taliban and al-Qaeda militants planning attacks on the West in Afghanistan and.

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