At least 17 people were killed and several injured in a suspected U.S. drone attack that targeted a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region early on Wednesday morning, Pak media reported.
The drone fired four missiles on the house near Miramshah bazaar in the Darpakhel area of North Waziristan targeting a Haqqani residential compound and a car. However, Haqqani leader Haji Shahrifullah escaped the attack, the biggest this year in terms of casualties and the second since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took office after winning the May 11 elections.
Pakistan's Dawn.com said intelligence sources confirmed the death toll.
U.S. officials consider the Haqqani network to be one of the most dangerous militant factions fighting American troops in neighboring Afghanistan. Leadership of the Haqqani network pledges allegiance to Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar but operates fairly independently.
Sharif has called for an immediate halt to U.S. drone strikes as they breached Pakistan's sovereignty.
The United States neither confirm nor deny drone strikes which it considers as a vital tool in fighting Taliban and al-Qaeda militants holed up in inaccessible mountains on the Pak-Afghan border.
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