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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan's army killed a renegade tribal leader accused of sheltering al-Qaida fighters, tracing him to a mud-brick compound via a satellite phone and then leveling the building in a helicopter assault, officials said Friday. Six other people also died. "We were tracking him down and he was killed last night by our hand," Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. A helicopter fired a missile at the hideout of Nek Mohammed near Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, near the Afghan border. The army got its break late Thursday when a satellite phone intercept...

Bin Laden ally killed in rocket attack By Ahmed Rashid in Islamabad and Peter Foster in New Delhi (Filed: 19/06/2004) Pakistan claimed a major victory against terrorism last night when it announced the death of a warlord believed to have sheltered al-Qa'eda fighters on the border with Afghanistan. Nek Mohammed, a former Taliban commander in his twenties, was killed on Thursday night by rocket and mortar fire as he hid in a mud-walled fortress in the hills outside Wana, in South Waziristan, Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan, an army spokesman, said. Mohammed's death removes a thorn from the side of President Pervaiz...

WANA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani troops killed a former Taliban fighter who led fierce resistance to the army's effort to flush out foreign militants from a rugged region near the Afghan border, the army spokesman said Friday. Nek Mohammed, who was allied with suspected al-Qaida militants, was killed in an overnight mortar assault on a mud-brick fortress in the South Waziristan region. Four others were also killed. "We were tracking him down and he was killed last night by our hand," Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan told The Associated Press in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat on...

ISLAMABAD (CNN) -- A tribal leader accused of harboring Al Qaeda militants in Pakistan's western border region was killed Thursday night in a targeted missile strike, according to Pakistan intelligence sources. The Associated Press quoted an army spokesman Friday as identifying the tribal leader as Nek Mohammed, a former Taliban fighter. He was killed late Thursday at the home of another tribal chief, the spokesman said. "We were tracking him down and he was killed last night by our hand," Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan told The Associated Press.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - At least seven militants were killed Wednesday in a gunbattle with the Pakistani army in a tense border region where hundreds of al-Qaida militants are suspected to be hiding, officials said. A mix of foreigners and local tribesmen were holed up in four fortress-like houses and were trading fire with soldiers in a mountainous area of South Waziristan about 25 miles from the Afghan frontier. Brig. Mahmood Shah, chief of security for Pakistan's tribal regions, said the dead militants were foreigners. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan confirmed that the military had recovered three bodies and they...