PESHAWAR: A US drone strike in eastern Afghanistan has killed 13 militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban, officials said on Tuesday.

The strike came in Nasyan area of the Afghan province of Nangarhar, close to the border with Pakistan’s tribal Khyber Agency.

Pakistani security officials said the militants belonged to Lashkar-i-Islam, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Abdullah Azam Brigade and Haqqani network.

“The strike took place when an important meeting of militants was in progress and a car bomb was being prepared for some suicide attack,” a Pakistani security official said.

“There are two Haqqani network commanders and six TTP militants among the dead,” the official said, adding that the rest belonged to the two other groups.

Published in Dawn March 25th , 2015

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