[Pak Daily Times] A US drone strike in the tribal areas killed six people including a big shot of the Haqqani network, officials said, in only the second such strike outside the country's lawless tribal districts.The missile attack hit a religious seminary that Death Eaters and security officials said belonged to the hard boy outfit -- blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan -- in the Hangu district
... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
. Haqqani sources told AFP that the network's spiritual leader, Maulana Ahmad Jan, was among those killed at the seminary, which they said was a rest base for Death Eaters fighting NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
forces in Afghanistan.
Earlier this month, the network's chief financier, Nasirudddin Haqqani, was bumped off in mysterious circumstances in a village on the edge of Islamabad. As it usually does after drone strikes, the government condemned the attack as a violation of illusory sovereignty and counterproductive to efforts to end militancy. Thursday's strike was the first time a US drone hit a district inside Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The only previous strike outside the tribal areas came in Bannu district, a so-called "frontier region".
It was also the first in Pakistain since Pak Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a similar strike in the North
Wazoo tribal district on November 1. That attack prompted a furious response from Pakistain, with the interior minister accusing Washington of sabotaging fledgling peace efforts with the Taliban and opposition parties calling for a blockade of NATO supply lines to Afghanistan. "The drone strike targeting the seminary killed six people," police official Farid Khan told AFP.Two local security officials identified two of the dead as Jan and Mufti Hameedullah and said they were both members of the Haqqani network. Several senior Haqqani sources confirmed the death of Jan, aged in his 60s. "He was the spiritual leader and head teacher of the Haqqani network," one source told AFP, adding that Jan was a member of the group's ruling council. "He was receiving people who were coming to condole the death of Nasiruddin Haqqani because followers of were not able to meet any other member of Haqqani family."
Pakistain strongly condemned the US drone strike. Foreign Office Spokesman Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry in a statement Thursday said that these strikes are violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity. He said there is an across-the-board consensus in Pakistain that these drone strikes must end. The front man said the government of Pakistain has been raising its concern over the drone strikes with the US administration and at the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
. He said the prime minister, during his recent visit to the US, had raised the issue with President Barack Obama
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money...
and other senior US leaders.
Opposition leader in the National Assembly Khurshid Shah came down hard on the government over the drone attack. "The latest drone strike was on Sartaz Aziz, not Hangu," Shah said while referring to the statement of prime minister's national security adviser in the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday that the US has assured Pakistain that drone strikes will not be carried out during talks with the Taliban. Talking to media, Shah said a drone strike after such a tall claim by the foreign affairs adviser was a challenge for the government as it has cast doubt over the foreign policy being adopted by the PML-N-led government. He doubted if the Taliban would trust the government's efforts for peace talks in the current circumstances.