NATO Afghan supplies resume at Pak border

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PESHAWAR, Oct 10 (AFP): NATO supplies through Pakistan's Torkham border crossing into Afghanistan resumed Sunday, 11 days after Islamabad closed the point in response to a deadly NATO air attack, officials said.
"The first convoy of more than a dozen vehicles left for Afghanistan this afternoon," customs official Mohammad Nawaz told AFP.
More vehicles loaded with supplies for NATO and US troops were ready to leave, he added.
Pakistan's foreign ministry on Saturday announced the reopening of the main land route for NATO supplies "with immediate effect".
US and NATO forces are fighting a nine-year Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and the route is vital to the war effort.
The decision came after US ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson on Wednesday apologised on behalf of the American people for the "terrible accident".
Meanwhile: A US drone strike killed eight militants at a compound in Pakistan's tribal North Waziristan region Sunday, security officials said.
The compound was located by a road in Shewa district about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of the region's main town of Miranshah.
The drone fired four missiles at the compound and two vehicles parked outside were also destroyed, an intelligence official in Miranshah told AFP.
"At least eight militants were killed and three wounded," a security official in Peshawar told AFP, raising his earlier casualty estimate.
The casualties were confirmed by two other intelligence officials in Miranshah.
The strike is the latest in a series of US operations in the region that are believed to have targeted Taliban and Al-Qaeda extremists plotting attacks in Europe.
Security officials said last week that a drone strike had killed five German militants.
The United States has massively ramped up its drone campaign in Pakistan's lawless northwestern tribal region on the Afghan border, amid intelligence claims of a Mumbai-style terror plot to attack European cities.
The plot was reportedly caught in its early planning stage ties have reported 27 drone attacks that have killed more than 150 people since September 3. The area is a hub for homegrown and foreign militants fighting in Afghanistan.
The missile attacks have also raised tensions with Islamabad over US dissatisfaction at Pakistani efforts to combat the Islamist threat.
Pakistan has said there is no justification for the drone strikes, describing them as "counter-productive" and a violation of the country's sovereignty.
The United States does not as a rule confirm drone attacks, but its military and the Central Intelligence Agency operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy the pilotless aircraft in the region.
Officials in Washington say previous drone strikes have killed a number of high-value targets, including the former Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.