Eight dead in fresh drone hit

PESHAWAR - At least eight suspected militants were killed and two sustained injuries when a US drone targeted a compound in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday.
An unmanned US aircraft fired at least four missiles at a compound reportedly used by militants at Razmak area, which is 60Km in South of the main town Miranshah. As a result of which, at least eight alleged militants were killed while two others sustained injuries.
The sources said that the targeted compound had been destroyed completely in the attack. They said the fresh strike came one day after US missiles destroyed a militants base in South Waziristan, killing up to 18 militants.
The official sources said that at least four missiles were fired on the compound in Badamshah village near Razmak. Thursdays strike was the 64th reported in tribal belt so far this year. Islamabad has time and again asked the US to stop drone attacks on Fata as it would fuel peoples sentiments against the US, but to no avail so far.
Agencies add: However, local intelligence officials said foreigners were also among dead and four militants were also wounded in the attack.
Pakistan has criticised the strikes as violations of the countrys sovereignty, but the government is widely believed to have supported the strikes in the past and even let the drones take off from bases inside Pakistan.
That support has become strained as the relationship between the US and Pakistan has deteriorated, especially in the wake of the covert American raid that killed Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in May.
The US has pushed Pakistan to take military action in North Waziristan, or at least provide Washington with intelligence that could be used to target insurgents battling American forces in Afghanistan. The US is especially focused on the Haqqani network, which it deems the most dangerous militant group in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has said it cant conduct a military operation in North Waziristan because its troops are stretched too thin fighting the Taliban in other parts of the tribal region.