Sixteen people, including eight paramilitary soldiers, were killed in Pakistan on Saturday in separate incidents in its restive tribal belt on the Afghan border, officials and witnesses said. Eight members of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary were killed in a clash with militants in the early hours in Mir Ali, about 24 km (15 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, officials said. Military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan confirmed the death of the eight men in the clash but did not give details. "We are trying to hunt those involved," he told private Geo television, adding that the situation in the region was under control. In another incident, eight people, including a woman, were killed and nine wounded in what witnesses believed was a helicopter gunship attack on a house of a militant in Dandi Sadhgy, 8 km (5 miles) north of Miranshah.
