MIRANSHAH: At least 10 soldiers were injured in a bomb attack on military vehicle in South Waziristan.
A
bomb attack on Monday wounded at least 10 Pakistani soldiers in the
Taliban and Al-Qaeda hotspot of Waziristan on the Afghan border,
officials said.
The device was detonated by remote control as a
military vehicle passed through the Sararogha village area in the
mountains of South Waziristan.
"At least 10 soldiers were
wounded, three of them seriously," a security official said. A local
intelligence official confirmed the bomb blast and casualties.
Pakistan
carried out a sweeping offensive in 2009 in South Waziristan targeting
the country s main Taliban faction, but many of their commanders and
foot soldiers are believed to have fled to neighbouring North
Waziristan.
Washington is pressing Islamabad to launch an
all-out offensive in North Waziristan against the Al-Qaeda-linked
Haqqani network, which is responsible for killing US troops in
Afghanistan.
But relations between Islamabad and Washington
plummeted after US commandos killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May,
and the military says it is too overstretched fighting Taliban
elsewhere to open a new front in Waziristan. Online
