Suspected strike kills 9 in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Nine people died Friday in what Pakistani military officials said they suspected was a U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border.

Wes Robertson, acting spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan, did not comment on the suspected strike, CNN reported.

Pakistani military sources and intelligence officials told CNN they suspected that two other attacks that killed 28 people in northwestern Pakistan a week ago also were U.S. strikes. Those strikes, on Oct. 31, came days after Pakistan's Foreign Ministry lodged a complaint with U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson about missile attacks the government believes were conducted on Pakistani soil by unmanned U.S. drones.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani met earlier this week with U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, leader of the Central Command, which includes Pakistan and Afghanistan, CNN said. Petraeus said the senior Pakistani leaders expressed concern about U.S. military attacks on targets in Pakistan.

Pakistan's parliament passed a resolution in October condemning any incursion on Pakistani soil by foreign forces.