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Bomb kills govt official, family in Pakistan

US drone strikes kill 13

AP, AFP, Parachinar
A bomb ripped through a government official's house in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing him and his five family . members in an attack that police said was ’ in retaliation for military operations targeting Taliban in the area.
The military' has stepped up airstrikes in Kurram since many militants fled there following a major ground offensive launched in nearby South Waziristan in mid-October. Both areas are in Pakistan's lawless tribal region near the Afghan border.
Sunday's attack targeted the house of Sarbraz Saddiqi. a government official in Kurram. said police officer Naeemullah Khan. The dead included Saddiqi. his wife and fourchildrcn. he said.
Police are investigating how the bomb was planted in Saddiqi's house and whether it was detonated by tuner or remote control, said Khan.
The attack appeared to be in retaliation for the military's stepped-up effort to target Taliban militants in the area who
have fled from South Waziristan, said Khan. Government officials have also been kidnapped in Kurram, he said.
Many Taliban militants are also believed to have fled to North Waziristan, an area in Pakistan's tribal region dominated by Jihadi groups launching cross-border attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Washington has pressed Pakistan to target such groups but has received a reluctant response, as Islamabad has continued to concentrate on militants that pose a domestic threat.
The US has responded by relying more heavily on drone missile strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas, including one Saturday in the Babar Raghzai area of North Waziristan.
Pakistani intelligence officials on Sunday raised the death toll from the strike to 13 after eight more bodies were pulled from the rubble and two wounded died in the hospital.
Earlier the US missile attack and demolished p compound in Pakistan's tribal belt used by militants crossing into
Afghanistan killed 13 fighters, Pakistani security officials said yesterday.
Hie US drone slammed two missiles into the building on Saturday in Saidgi village, seven km north of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan, officialssaid.
'Taliban have recovered more dead bodies from the debris. We have reports that a total of 13 militants were killed and three injured." an intelligence official in Miranshah told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"One of the local commanders, Abdur Rehman, was also killed.” he added.
The US rarely discusses the covert programme but has in the past said it has taken out several top al-Qaeda operatives.
At least one local militant commander was killed in Saturday's strike. But authorities were still trying to determine how many of the others were militants or civilians, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to the media.
Pakistan publicly opposes the strikes but is believed to secretly aid them.