AUTHOR javno100



PAKISTAN

JANUARY 1 2009 16:30h

FACTBOX-Security Developments In Pakistan, Jan 1

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Suspected separatist militants attacked a paramilitary patrol in gas-rich Baluchistan province.

Following are security developments in Pakistan at 1445 GMT on Thursday:

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN - A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles into Pakistan's South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, killing three foreign militants and wounding one, two Pakistani intelligence agents said.

BALUCHISTAN - Suspected separatist militants attacked a paramilitary patrol in gas-rich Baluchistan province and eight militants and three soldiers were killed, the province's paramilitary force commander said.

MOHMAND - Eleven militants were captured in a raid in the Mohmand ethnic Pashtun tribal region in the northwest, a paramilitary spokesman said. It was not known if the militants had fled from a military operation in neighbouring Khyber.

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