ISLAMABAD, Jan. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Two Pakistani soldiers were killed and two others injured on Friday when a rocket hit an army camp in South Waziristan district bordering Afghanistan.

    Pakistani army's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed the incident to Xinhua, and said it might not have links with the ongoing searching operation on al-Qaeda suspects in the district. However, the ISPR said that the targeted army camp was engaged in the military operation.

    The Pakistani military and para-military forces began a major operation against al-Qaeda remnants in South Waziristan on Wednesday night and the mission is continuing with no arrest having been made.

    South Waziristan, a restive autonomous tribal region in the Northwest Frontier province, is assumedly a stronghold of the al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives sneaking from Afghanistan. It is alsoone of Osama Bin-Laden's possible hideouts.

    In October last year, the Pakistani army conducted a netting inthe region in which eight terror suspects were killed and 18 others captured in the operation.

    Since the US-led war on terror ended in Afghanistan in 2002, over 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects have been nabbed in the Pakistani territory. Enditem