Six suspected militants were killed in a presumed US drone strike on Miranshah Tehsil in North Waziristan [5], Pakistan, June 18. This time, the drone attack comes amid Pakistani air-strikes on militant strongholds in the region—causing 150,000 to flee their homes in recent days. A camp for displaced people has been set up near Bannu, on the border with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, but it lacks food, water and electricity. The Pakistan Army has mobilized tanks and troops, in addition to fighter jets, and is expected to begin a new, more intense phase of what has been dubbed "Operation Zarb-e-Azb" after a three-day window to allow civilians to leave the area ends. Chinese authoriites claim that Uighur members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM [6]) are among the militants killed in the Pakistani air-strikes. (Newsweek Pakistan [7], June 20; CNN [8], BBC News [9], June 19; Xinhua [10], June 15)