PESHAWAR, Feb 29: Suspected militants on Sunday fired two missiles at a military checkpoint outside Wana, the regional headquarters of the remote South Waziristan tribal region, officials told Dawn.

The missiles were fired hours before a jirga of tribal elders endorsed an official ban on carrying and display of weapons in the regional headquarters area, but no loss of life and property was reported.

Officials said missiles had targeted the Shulam military checkpoint, the area where 11 civilians were killed in a shooting incident on Saturday. They were killed when troops mistook them as militants and and opened fire.

The officials said the first missile on Sunday was fired at around 4am followed by another at around 7am. eanwhile, President Pervez Musharraf has ordered a full probe into Saturday's killing.

The president directed the authorities concerned to conduct an immediate inquiry and ascertain details of the sequence of events that led to the death of 11 persons and injuries to six others near Wana on Saturday, said an official statement issued in Islamabad.

In a message to the bereaved families, the president expressed his profound grief and sorrow over the incident. He also announced a compensation of Rs100,000 for the families of those who lost their lives and Rs50,000 for the injured.

This amount would be in addition to the compensation which had already been announced, officials said. Authorities in the region said they had told the Malak Khel tribe to identify and surrender those responsible for the missile attack under the Territorial Responsibility Clause of the 1901 Frontier Crimes Regulation.

The officials expecting a tribal backlash in the wake of strong resentment over the death of innocent people said they were relieved by the relative peace following the incident. "Thank God, it was all quite," acknowledged an official.

But tribal elders attending the jirga at Wana on Sunday took the opportunity to air their resentment over the incident. "The incident has generated a great deal of resentment," admitted a tribal elder requesting he not be named.

Reluctantly, however, they agreed to an official ban announced on Saturday on carrying and display of weapons in the regional headquarters. "It is for your own security," administrator of South Waziristan, Muhammad Azam Khan, told the jirga.

Officials said the step had been taken to pre-empt sniper attacks in a region that was awashed with weapons. South Waziristan is the largest agency among the seven federally administered tribal areas.

Violation of the ban would entail Rs100,000 fine and a prison sentence of up to three years, Azam Khan announced. To pacify anger, authorities told the jirga that they regretted the Saturday incident, a participant of the jirga said on phone from Wana.

"We regret that this has happened, but this would not have happened had there been no Al Qaeda militants," the participant quoted Azam Khan as saying. "On Saturday, it was Shulam, tomorrow it could be Angor Adda, Azam Warsak and Shakai. Those miscreants who are harbouring such elements are to be blamed. They are involved in a conspiracy to pitch tribesmen against the government and the army," the administrator South Waziristan told the jirga.

He urged the tribesmen to either persuade foreign militants to leave their area or turn them over to the government. He promised that foreigners not wanted by any country would be handed back to tribes on surety of good conduct and peaceful existence in future.

A tribal elder on the occasion said the jirga demanded that the government should repatriate the large number of Afghan refugees living in the tribal area to enable people to distinguish between locals from the non-locals.

The administrator also announced a cash compensation of Rs100,000 each for the dead and Rs50,000 for the wounded. Our Staff Reporter adds from Islamabad that ISPR Director-General Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan told Dawn: "No loss of life took place." He was asked about reports that two rockets were fired on a military checkpoint outside Wana.

He said that all types of precautionary measures were being taken by authorities. Sources said Commandant South Waziristan Scouts Khalid Osman met the jirga on Sunday after the rocket attacks and warned them of a retaliatory action if such attacks continued.

But Major-Gen Shaukat Sultan expressed his inability to confirm or deny if a meeting between Khalid Osman and the jirga took place on Sunday. The political administration would better be able to tell this, he said.

Asked about the fresh deployment of about 600 additional Dir scouts, Major-Gen Sultan said it did not mean any reinforcement. It could be part of additional security measures in view of Muharram, he added.

He said the Inspector General Frontier Constabulary was fully empowered to send troops to any area under his command. Meanwhile, Frontier Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has ordered an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the incident, reads an official notification issued on Sunday.

The report will be presented to the governor within 10 days, says the official announcement.

PROBE REPORT: Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, meanwhile, told private TV channels that investigations had been ordered into the Wana incident and a final report would be presented within a week, add agencies.