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Pakistan missile strike kills eight: officials
0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Missiles fired from Afghanistan hit a militant hideout in Pakistan's tribal belt Wednesday, killing at least eight people including some foreign extremists, security officials said.
The strike in the South Waziristan region was the first since key US ally Pervez Musharraf resigned as president on Monday and left Pakistan's recently elected government in charge of tackling the militants.
Two missiles hit a house owned by a local tribesman with links to Islamic militants in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, a known haven for Al-Qaeda and Taliban rebels, the officials said.
"It was a known hideout for militants. At least eight people were killed and some foreign militants are among them," one security official told AFP on...
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