Three drone strikes in 24 hours: U.S. chasing high-value target in Pakistan?

Pakistani officials said that between four and six “militants” were killed in the strike, but did not disclose their identities.

In the second of the pair of strikes, two more “militants” were killed while conducting recovery operations at the scene of the earlier strike.

Although no senior al Qaeda or Taliban leaders were reported killed, the pace of the strikes indicates that the one or more high value targets were the focus of the attacks.

The US has now launched three strikes in Shawal in the past 24 hours. On Saturday, the drones hit a compound in the village of Shuwedar in the Shawal Valley in North Waziristan, killing six “militants,” according to Pakistani officials. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry objected to the Shuwedar strike, and called the US incursions “a violation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity and also in contravention of international law,” according to Dawn.