Pakistan – Supposed U.S. armaments struck a vehicle in a confrontational stranglehold on Pakistan's side of the boundary with Afghanistan on Monday, killing six people, Pakistani cleverness officials said.
The assault in the North Waziristan tribal area came in the final days of a year that has witnessed an unparalleled number of such drone-fired strikes on Pakistani soil, fraction of a ramped-up U.S. campaign to take out al-Qaida and Taliban fighters seeking refuge exterior Afghanistan.
At least 110 such arrow strikes have been launched this year — more than repetition last year's whole. Nearly all have landed in North Waziristan, a county that hosts more than a few militant groups battling U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, as well as the feared Haqqani group.
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