killing of innocent children and womens

At least 31 people were killed Monday in a remote area of Pakistan close to the border with Afghanistan in what appeared to be a missile strike from an American drone, according to a government official and a resident in the Kurram tribal region. The attack was one of many reported from remote border areas of Pakistan since last August as U.S. forces seek to strike suspected militants who cross into Afghanistan to attack NATO soldiers there. But the attack was the first in the semi-autonomous Kurram tribal region, news reports said. A government official, who declined to be identified by name because he was not authorized to talk to reporters, said the dead in the air strike, near the border town of Parachinar, were all though to be Taliban militants, some of them from outside the Kurram area.