Bomb blast kills 10 near Pakistan militant base

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Two U.S. drone strikes on northwest Pakistan killed a senior Taliban commander who fought American forces in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani military, intelligence officials said Thursday. The commander, Maulvi Nazir, was among nine people killed in a missile strike on a house in the village of Angoor Adda in the South Waziristan tribal region near the border with Afghanistan late Wednesday night, five Pakistani security officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

A bomb attack at a mosque in Pakistan's city of Peshawar killed two people and wounded 11 others as worshippers filed out after the main Friday Muslim prayers, officials said.The planted bomb detonated in a congested neighbourhood on the western outskirts of the city on the Muslim day of rest.The northwestern city, which neighbours the wild tribal belt on the Afghan border, has been hard hit by attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda-linked militants and Taliban opposed to the government's alliance with the United States.

A US drone Thursday fired two missiles on a suspected militant compound in Pakistan's lawless northwestern tribal belt, killing three people, security officials said.The target of the attack was a house used by militants in Khaddi village, some 15 kilometres east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, officials said."One US drone fired two missiles on a house, three militants have been killed," a senior security official in Peshawar told AFP.

A US drone strike has killed eight militants, including German nationals, in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt near the Afghan border, local security officials have said."Five German rebels of Turkish origin and three local militants were killed in the strike," a security official said, adding they were trying to find out further details of the dead and their militant group.Another security official told AFP that "some European nationals including Germans were killed in the strike", without giving an exact number.

A US drone aircraft fired two missiles at a suspected militant compound in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Thursday, killing three people, security officials said.The target was a house in the village of Khaddi, some 15 kilometres (nine miles) east of North Waziristan's main town, Miranshah, officials said.The drone "fired two missiles on a house. Three militants have been killed," a senior security official in Peshawar told AFP.An intelligence official in Miranshah confirmed the attack and that militants were using the house as a base.

A US drone missile attack Tuesday killed at least five suspected militants in the 11th such strike targeting Pakistan's northwest Taliban strongholds this month, security officials said.The missiles pounded a militant compound in a village 30 kilometres (18 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region.Pakistan's lawless tribal belt runs along the Afghan border and Washington has branded it the most dangerous place in the world, rife with Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants plotting attacks on Western targets.

A bomb blast ripped through a busy second-hand car market in a Pakistan's infamous tribal district of Khyber on Friday, killing ten civilians including children, officials said.The explosion rocked Kuki Khel town in Khyber, on the NATO supply route into Afghanistan and part of Pakistan's tribal belt that Washington considers an Al-Qaeda headquarters and the most dangerous region on Earth.

A bomb killed seven Pakistani soldiers and wounded 11 others Saturday in the country's northwestern tribal area, officials said."Seven paramilitary soldiers were killed and 11 were wounded in the remote-control bomb attack," Shafirullah Khan, the top administrative official of Khyber tribal district, told AFP by telephone.Military and security officials in nearby Peshawar city confirmed the incident, saying two vehicles carrying rations for Pakistani troops were destroyed in the blast.It occurred about 15 kilometres (nine miles) west of Peshawar.