A US missile attack killed six people on Wednesday, the first such strike for almost a month in Pakistan’s tribal badlands near the Afghan border

A US missile attack killed six people on Wednesday, the first such strike for almost a month in Pakistan's tribal badlands near the Afghan border, security officials said.
  
"It was a US drone attack. Four missiles were fired. The target was a vehicle. Several militants were killed. The death toll is six," a Pakistani military official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
  
Another Pakistani security official confirmed the same details of the attack near the small town of Angoor Adda in South Waziristan district, around six kilometres (four miles) from the border with Afghanistan.

It was the first missile strike since March 17, when Pakistan's civilian and military leaders strongly protested over a US drone attack that killed 39 people, including civilians and police, in North Waziristan.

Wednesday's drone strike comes just one day after Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the chief of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, met Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, in Washington. George Little, a CIA spokesman, told AFP the talks were productive and that relations between the agency and the ISI remained on a "solid footing."
  
But a New York Times article had quoted a Pakistani official as saying that Pakistan's military "would like the drones stopped," after complaining that the Obama administration's expanded drone attacks had run out of control.