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Missile Strike Kills 6 in Pakistan

18 October 2010 23:09 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Pakistani officials say suspected U.S. missile strikes killed at least six militants in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan on Monday, APA reports quoting â€œThe Voice of Americaâ€.
The officials provided no details on the targets of the strikes.
In southwest Pakistan, police say militants attacked and set fire to three NATO tankers transporting fuel for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.
The three tankers were attacked in Baluchistan near the border with Iran and Afghanistan.
These attacks comes just days after Pakistan re-opened the border crossing following an 11-day closure imposed after a cross-border airstrike by NATO forces.
Elsewhere in Pakistan, a suicide car bomber attempted to attack a military checkpoint in the northwestern district of Lakki Marwat and security forces opened fire on him. Three people were wounded in the resulting explosion.
Thirty-one people were killed in election-related violence that broke out Saturday in Pakistanâ€™s southern port city of Karachi. Twenty people have been arrested.
The election was being held Sunday to replace provincial lawmaker Raza Haider from the Muttahida Quami Movement , who was gunned down in August. MQM, which largely represents the Urdu-speaking community, and the rival Awami National Party, representing ethnic Pashtuns, blamed each other for the violence.