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Pakistan: Third US cross-border attack in three days kills two women and three children
"Sources said a US spy plane fired three missiles on a house in Gorewek near the Afghan border, some 60 kilometres west of Miramshah.
"The house was completely destroyed and three children and two women were killed.
"This was the third attack by the US-led forces inside Pakistan in three days.
"On Thursday, at least five militants were killed when a missile fired from an unmanned plane hit a house in Mohammad Khel village."
Meanwhile, protests against deadly US cross-border raids continued across Pakistan. AFP reported that around 3,000 Pakistani tribesmen protested in Peshawar on September 5, chanting: "Allahu Akbar and death to America".
"If Americans do not stop launching assaults in our tribal regions, we will attack their bases in Afghanistan," tribal elder Malik Ali Mohammad told the protesters.
The International News (Jang) reported that the Sindh provincial assembly unanimously passed two resolutions condemning Wednesday's attack by US-led forced in Afghanistan on a village in South Waziristan. The resolution said:
"This assembly expresses its deep outrage and condemnation over the indiscriminate killing of 20 people, including four minors, during an attack by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in South Wazirstan Agency, recognizes the incident as an unacceptable attack on Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and strongly recommends that the Provincial Government approach the Federal Government to take measures in order to ensure that all out measures are taken so that any and all such attacks are prevented in future."
Dawn also reported on September 5 that the Pakistan government decided to stop fuel supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan via the Torkham highway with effect from Saturday September 6.
“An order to this effect has come from Islamabad and the Frontier Corps has been asked to stop oil supplies to Nato forces forthwith,” a senior government official was quoted by Dawn.
The report added that the federal government did not cite any reason for the move, but the decision was apparently taken in the wake of the US ground and missile attacks in North and South Waziristan tribal regions.
Source: Dawn, Jang, AFP