Kareem Khan, a resident of Mirali in North Waziristan Agency, who lost his son and brother in the drone attack, approached the Islamabad High Court to register a case against two CIA officials, Jonathan Banks and John A. Rizzo.
By Zabihullah Tamanna
A U.S. drone strike killed at least 12 Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
A prominent local Taliban commander, Mullah Nesar, was among those killed in the strike.
According to provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal the incident took place in Nangarhar province, some 150 km east of capital Kabul.
“Yesterday at 5 p.m. the U.S. drone targeted Taliban insurgents travelling by a corolla wagon car and a motorbike. All of them have been killed and their vehicles were destroyed,” Mashriqiwal told Anadolu Agency.
Mullah Nesar and his group, according to officials, were responsible for most attacks on Afghan forces on the highway which links Afghanistan to neighboring Pakistan.
“He and his militants were on their way to conduct an imminent attack on the highway when he came under fire,” the official said.
U.S. military officials were not available to comment but U.S.-led international forces have been targeting local and foreign militants operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Anadolu Ajansi)
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Wagah Border between India and Pakistan
China and Russia share common border with as many as 14 countries. China: Afghanistan (76 km); Bhutan (470 km); India (3,380 km); Kazakhstan (1,533 km); North Korea (1,416 km); Kyrgyzstan (858 km); Laos (423 km); Mongolia (4,673 km); Myanmar (2,185 km); Nepal (1,236 km); Pakistan (523 km); Russia (3,645 km); Tajikistan (414 km); and Vietnam (1,281 km).
Russia: Azerbaijan (284 km); Belarus (959 km); China (3,645 km); Estonia (294 km); Finland (1,313 km); Georgia (723 km); Kazakhstan (6,846 km); North Korea (19 km); Latvia (217 km); Lithuania (227 km); Mongolia (3,441 km); Norway (167 km); Poland (206 km); and Ukraine (1,576 km).
Next, Brazil shares borders with ten countries while Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo have nine.
On the other hand Sri Lanka shares only has maritime borders with the Maldives and India while Denmark has borders with Sweden and Norway by sea; Canada has sea boundaries with Denmark and France
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