Haqqani network target of US raids

He said that coinciding with strikes on Muhammad Khel, a US warplane bombed another border village of North Waziristan, Datta Khel, and that attack too was directed at the followers of Haqqani.

According to official, North Waziristan is the important tribal region controlled mostly by Haqqanis along with the adjoining Khost province of Afghanistan.

The US forces also conducted a strike in Khost province on Friday near Pakistani border that too according to officials here was meant to hit the Haqqani network.

Another official, who also desired not to be named, said the ongoing strikes against Haqqani network begun with attack in early September at Haqqani compound in the village of Danday Darpakhel near Miranshah. In that attack too, over 20 people including nine Arab fighters were killed.