DRONE STRIKES EXPANDED ON PAKISTAN

The number of Drone strikes on Pakistan is expanding and between 5 and 15 people were killed on Saturday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least five people in the Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Saturday, in what would be one of the first such attacks in the area, intelligence and government officials said.

U.S. missiles have regularly pounding al-Qaida and Taliban targets along the Afghan border for two years now. The attacks have killed scores of people, most of them identified as militants by Pakistani officials. But they have caused anger in Pakistan, where many people see them as an unacceptable violation of the country’s sovereignty.

The suspected strike in the remote Teerah Valley of Khyber could fan fresh anger because it represented a widening of the covert program.