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US missile attack in Waziristan injures 4

* Jirga of Ahmedzai Wazirs, political admin agree to cease fire, end curfew from today

By Hafeezullah Wazir

WANA: A missile fired from a United States drone injured a woman and three children in South Waziristan late on Wednesday night, officials and residents told Daily Times on Thursday.

The US missile struck the backyard of the house of Sardali Khan in the Ganghikhel area, wounding four members of his family. “It was fired from a drone,” local resident Hafeez Khan told Daily Times. He said that the missile injured a woman, two boys and a minor girl.

The missile attack was carried out at a time when a jirga of Ahmedzai Wazirs was negotiating a ceasefire between the government and the Taliban.

Cease fire: Tribal elders told Daily Times on Thursday that the talks succeeded between 40-member jirga and the political administration. The jirga and the political administration agreed to cease fire and end curfew from today (Friday). The jirga ensured that it would co-operate with the political administration, while the authorities pledged to remove blockades from roads.

The talks were aimed at brokering a ceasefire between the government and the Taliban to enable locals to transport truckloads of vegetables and fruit outside the tribal agency. “Hundreds of such truckloads are awaiting the reopening of Wana-Tank highway that was closed by the local administration after militants attacked checkposts,” said a tribal elder who did not want to be named.

Meanwhile, a tense calm prevailed in Wana bazaar as no clashes were reported on Thursday between the government forces and the Taliban after Wednesday’s fierce fighting left 11 militants and two army personnel dead.

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