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 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Tribal elders signed a deal with the government to deny sanctuary to foreign militants in a remote Pakistani border region where al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri escaped a U.S. airstrike last year, the two sides said Tuesday.
The accord signed Monday was the third of its kind and underlines President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's insistence that tribal leaders — not the army — take the lead in taming the frontier zone despite signs that Taliban fighters continue to use it as a launching pad for attacks into Afghanistan.
But the region's dangers were underlined Tuesday when a senior intelligence officer and two of his aides were killed in a grenade and gunfire attack on a Bajur road. An area security officer said four people were killed.
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