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Tribal elder, three relatives killed in Pakistan
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-22 14:43
Gunmen killed a pro-government tribal elder, two of his sons and a brother on
Friday in a troubled Pakistani tribal region where al Qaeda-linked militants are
believed to have been hiding.
The unidentified assailants ambushed the car of Mirza Aalim Khan as he was
travelling to Wana, the main town in the South Waziristan tribal region
bordering Afghanistan, from a nearby village, witnesses said.
Khan was an influential man in Wazir tribe, one of the two dominant clans in
the region inhabited by ethnic Pashtuns.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which came a day after a hand
grenade was thrown into a Sunni Muslim mosque in the adjoining Kurram tribal
region, killing two preachers.
A large number of al Qaeda linked militants are thought to be hiding in the
rugged Waziristan region, about 400 km (250 miles) northwest of the capital
Islamabad.
Hundreds of people have been killed in fierce clashes between security forces
and militants in Waziristan in the past year.
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