(Previous Incident Code: Ob129 )

Up to nine suspected militants were reported killed and five people injured in the first US led strike in South Waziristan for many weeks.

The attack on a vehicle was, according to one report, aimed at militant Mullah Shamsullah, but he was not killed.

A secret Pakistani document published by the Bureau in January 2014 partly contradicted this narrative.

It said: “five missiles were fired from [a] Drone on the Markaz [headquarters] of Commander Shamsullah Karmaz Khel group’, a ‘branch office’ of Maulvi Nazir‘s armed group. The official record said nine local men were killed”.