US drones targetting Kurram Agency

PESHAWAR: The US is increasingly targetting Pakistan’s Kurram Agency with drone strike as there have been six such attacks this year.

The last drone strike took place on Tuesday when a vehicle was targetted with missiles from an overflying drone in the Mata Sangar area in Kurram Agency. There were reports that two militants, including a commander identified as Juma Khan aka Jumaddin were killed in the attack and a third one was wounded.

Sections of the Afghan media claimed Jumaddin hailed from Afghanistan’s Khost province and was affiliated to the Haqqani network.

However, neither the Haqqani network nor the Afghan Taliban group to which it is affiliated formally confirmed that Jumaddin belonged to the Haqqani network.