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(From ONASA News Agency)
WANA, Pakistan, March 17 (ONASA - AFP) - Pakistani troops were Wednesday searching for militants along Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt bordering Afghanistan after 32 people including eight troops were killed in bloody clashes in the hunt for Al-Qaeda fugitives. Fierce fighting raged all day Tuesday in South Waziristan after hundreds of Pakistani paramilitary troops surrounded a fortress-like tribal compound and two adjoining houses where a band of Al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects were hiding. The militants fought back with mortars and heavy weapons, killing at least eight troops from the paramilitary Frontier Corps and wounding another 15, …