Peshawar, Oct 4: United States air strikes on three villages in North Waziristan have killed at least 21 people and wounded several others.

Intelligence officials said a pilotless drone aircraft launched an attack on the village of Mohammad Khel, 30 kilometres west of Miranshah, North Waziristan’s main urban centre, at around 9:30 p. m. on Friday.

One intelligence official said at least 12 people had been killed in the attack, including some foreigners.

However, Taliban sources in the area said that eight people were killed and seven were wounded.

Peshawar, Oct 4 : Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud was accorded warm welcome by people of his tribe when he appeared in a remote village of South Waziristan Agency (SWA), quashing media reports about his death.

Armed men from Mehsud tribe and local Taliban fired shots from rocket launchers and automatic weapons as Baitullah appeared in a small village ‘Saam’ to nullify his death reports, The News quoted witnesses, as saying.

The TTP leader was presented a traditional turban and garland, they said.

Peshawar, Oct 3: As the Pakistan government’s battle against the Taliban goes on, common innocent Pakistanis are by and large finding themselves being sandwiched between the two sides, and have fallen victim to bullets of both. While the Taliban scramble for shelter in the tribal areas, the Pakistan Army continues to shower artillery on these areas in a bid to eliminate the extremists, killing innocent civilians, including women and children.

Peshawar, Oct 3 : The Pakistan military has reportedly claimed that the Taliban militants active in the northwestern parts of Pakistan were holding the Polish engineer kidnapped last weekend.

Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak was kidnapped by gunmen last Sunday after shooting down his two drivers and a security guard in Attock district, reported the Daily Times.

Mohammad, a spokesman for the militants, said: “He is with us. We have kidnapped him,” said sources in the Pakistan Army

Peshawar, Oct 1: Denying reports appearing in the Pakistani media that the abducted Afghan envoy Abdul Khaliq Farahi was released on Monday morning, senior security officials in Peshawar have said that there was still no trace of the missing diplomat.

They said that the media reports were “false and irresponsible”, and that they might have been intentionally planted by someone.

Peshawar, Sept 30: After seven says of being abducted, Afghan envoy Abdul Khaliq Farahi was released last evening in Peshawar. He was brought to the city on Monday evening, the Daily Times quoted sources as saying.

Farahi, Afghanistan’s consul general in Peshawar and ambassador-designate to Islamabad was kidnapped by armed men in Hayatabad on September 22.

Without revealing the exact location of his detention, sources said that he had been recovered and had arrived in Peshawar, added the paper.