The Baghar China UAV strike ( ps, د بغر چينې هوايي بريد) happened in the evening on 17 September 2008, when four missiles fired from a

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hit the village of Baghar China in the mountains of

South Waziristan South Waziristan District ( ps, سويلي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ur, ) was a district in Dera Ismail Khan Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before splitting in to Lower South Waziristan District and Upper South Waziristan District and ...

, in the

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(FATA) of

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, about 4 kilometres from the

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border and 55 kilometres west of

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, the main town in the region and close to Angur Ada, the village that was raided by US commandos on 3 September. The missiles hit a militant training camp, killing five and injuring at least six people.'US missiles' hit Pakistan village
– Al Jazeera, 18 September 2008 This was the sixth confirmed U.S. missile attack inside Pakistan since the end of August 2008, and comes two days after a Pakistan–U.S. standoff on 15 September 2008, in which Pakistani forces fired shots into the air, in order to deter U.S. forces from entering Pakistani territory. The incident came as the top US military commander, Admiral

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met Pakistan's most senior army officer, General Ashfaq Kayani and prime-minister

Yousuf Raza Gilani Yusuf Raza Gilani (Urdu: ; born 9 June 1952), is a Pakistani politician who served as 18th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 25 March 2008, until his retroactive disqualification and ouster by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 26 April 2012. He ...

Islamabad Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital ...

to discuss growing tension over US attacks along the border.

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{{reflist Airstrikes of the insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 2008 in Pakistan September 2008 events in Asia Conflicts in 2008

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