ISLAMABAD, March 31: Individuals and not entire tribes had offered resistance to the law enforcement agencies during the operation in the South Waziristan Agency, said Director-General of the Inter-Services Public Relations Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan.

The people in the North Waziristan and the South Waziristan tribal agencies had generally welcomed the Pakistan Army, the ISPR DG told a local television channel late Tuesday night.

Dispelling the impression that the armed forces had met resistance in the South Waziristan agency, he said that there were some individuals belonging to a sub-tribe of Wazir tribe who had resisted.

He said one of the major tribe in the South Waziristan, Mahsud tribe, was "fully supporting the government's move to rid the area of miscreants," adding they had even committed themselves to ensure protection to the convoys passing through their area.

He said the investigation into the incident of killing of 13 people in Wana was in its final stages. He dismissed the notion as being senseless that operations in the tribal areas were being conducted under US pressure or that they had any link with the visit of the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell. -APP