Militants from Afghanistan attack Pakistan

Slews of militants from Afghanistan attacked an anti-Taliban reserves writer in point Pakistan for the position day Sunday, sparking disorderly that killed one soldier and 20 militants, a Pakistani semiofficial said.

In addition to the barren, quaternary soldiers and quaternion militiamen were people in Sunday's beginning in the Bajur tribal area, said Jahangir Azam Wazir, a localised regime head.

Pakistan has criticized Coat and U.S.-led coalition forces for not doing sufficiency to interrupt the ascension amount of cross-border attacks by Asiatic Taliban militants holed up in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, crossways the meet from Bajur.

That criticism could soften after the coalition killed a senior Pakistan Taliban commander in an airstrike in Kunar on Friday. Mullah Dadullah, was the leader of the Pakistani Taliban in Bajur. He was killed along with 11 others, including his deputy.

That writing could change after the alinement killed a grownup Pakistan Taleban officer in an airstrike in Kunar on Weekday. Moslem Dadullah, was the feature of the Pakistani Taliban in Bajur. He was killed along with 11 others, including his deputy.

Four soldiers, six militiamen and 38 militants died during the cross-border attacks in the Salarzai extent of Bajur on Fri and Sat, Wazir said.

Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said Sunday that its operatives have confirmed that the son of the founder of the Haqqani network was killed in Pakistan, even as the Taliban vowed that he was alive and in Afghanistan.

The airstrike that killed Dadullah followed the cross-border crime on Friday, but the NATO alignment said there was no coordination with Pakistan during the assail.

American gunmen kidnap in Pakistan

American gunmen kidnap  in Pakistan

 AN American kidnapped at gunpoint from his house in the Pakistani city of Lahore, after gunmen stormed through the back door and overpowered his guards, police said.

Lahore is capital of the eastern province of Punjab and considered one of Pakistan's more liberal cities.

The US embassy said the man had been identified as Warren Weinstein and that he works for a private company.

Snatched at dawn today in the up market neighborhoods of Model Town, just two days before he was due to return to the US after more than four years in the deeply conservative nuclear-armed Muslim country of 167 million.

"Somebody knocked on the main door. According to one of the guards when he opened the door, he saw three men standing there. They offered meals to the guard, who politely refused," police official Tajamul Hussain told AFP.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the kidnapping.

US embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez confirmed the seizure and told AFP: "We are working with Pakistani authorities on this issue."

Police refused to be drawn on possible motivation in a country where anti-American tensions are at an all-time high, and abductions involve both al-Qaeda-linked militants and criminal gangs looking for pay-offs.

Police said Weinstein travelled widely within Pakistan, and had returned to Lahore from the capital Islamabad on Thursday.