The officials further added, the strike came before 4:30 am local time on Saturday and the target was a house suspected of being a militant’s hideout in Miranshah, a main town in North Waziristan.
A Senior Pakistani official quoted by AFP said, “A US drone fired two missiles at a house and at least four militants were killed. The identities of the militants killed in the drone strike were not immediately known.”
This was the third US drone strike in North Waziristan within last four days and the 15th of its kind (counted on daily basis) in Pakistan since the beginning of this year.
Washington considers Pakistan’s semi-autonomous northwestern tribal belt the main hub of Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan.
However Pakistan views the US drone strike on its soil as a serious violation of its sovereighty and a contravention of the international law, but the United States insists that it is an effective way to fight against the terrorists.
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