Five People Were Killed in Militant Attack in Pakistan

The attack took place in Shalobar area, Khyber, part of the semi-autonomous tribal region where the military to fight militants led by warlord Mangal Bagh, AFP reported.
“Five villagers were killed and six people injured,” said Sayed Ahmad Jan, a senior government official in Khyber, told AFP by telephone.
“Militants came with a car pick-ups and shooting villagers who stood by the roadside,” added Jan.

An intelligence official in Khyber told the villagers that helped force Frontier Corps (FC) dispels the militants, and he confirmed that the paramilitary forces conduct search operations in the area on Tuesday.
Elsewhere in Shalobar, seven people including two children and three women were injured when a mortar shell hit their house, said in january militants linked to al-Qaeda have bases in Pakistan tribal region, which is also the base behind the Taliban’s fight against US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan.

U.S. calls Pakistan’s tribal areas as the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and one of the most dangerous places on Earth. Unmanned planes launched dozens of attacks in the U.S. pakistani tribal region that killed hundreds of people since U.S. commandos killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a secret operation in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2. The U.S. raid against Osama place that has shamed and angered the Pakistani military and add to the tension between the two countries.

U.S. urged Islamabad to end attacks drone, while Washington demanded Pakistan take action to quell the terror network determines. High anti-US sentiment in Pakistan, and the war against militancy which made the U.S. unpopular in Pakistan because of the perception that many civilians were killed by drone attacks aimed at militants along the border with Afghanistan and the people feel that it is a violation of the sovereignty of Pakistan.

U.S. missile attacks doubled in 2010 in Pakistani tribal areas, and more than 670 people were killed in about 100 attacks throughout the year. In 2009, 45 such attacks killed 420 people, according to an AFP count. U.S. officials have waged war with the drone of the commanders of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in northwestern tribal region, where militants hiding in the mountainous area that is outside the direct control of the Pakistani government.
American forces said the militant group used the border as a place to do training, a rearrangement of power and launch attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan.