Around the World: Pakistan

'Spy plane' found

The Pakistani army said yesterday that it had found the wreckage of a suspected US spy plane near the Afghan border but denied claims that it had been shot down.

The incident comes amid strained ties between Washington and Islamabad over a series of missile strikes by American drones at suspected militant targets on the Pakistan side of the border.

In more signs that the militancy is escalating, a suicide bomber killed an 11-year-old girl and wounded 11 troops in the frontier city of Quetta while security forces killed 20 militants in another border zone.

(China Daily 09/25/2008 page11)