Islamabad – A suspected U.S. drone strike targeted a house used by militants and killed three people in north-western Pakistan, an official in the region said on Friday.
“The drone fired two missiles on the house used by the Haqqani network in Kurram Agency, a semi-autonomous tribal region bordering Afghanistan, the agency’s Senior Administrator,’’ Baseer Wazir, said.
“One person was injured,’’ Wazir added.
The rare drone strike in Pakistan came weeks after U.S. President, Donald Trump, announced a new policy for Afghanistan and the broader South Asian region that alarmed Islamabad.
In his policy speech, Trump singled out Pakistan for providing a safe haven for terrorist groups.
Pakistan’s political and military leaders rejected his claim.
Ties between Washington and Islamabad have frayed in recent years amid U.S. counter-terrorism efforts along the Afghan-Pakistani border and the secret U.S. raid that killed al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden.
U.S. drone attacks inside Pakistan have become rare over the past few years.
The last high-profile target of a drone attack in Pakistan was Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in 2016. (dpa/NAN)