A drive-by shooting in Islamabad on Friday was the third such incident in the capital since the army launched an offensive against Taliban militants in mid-October.

An unidentified brigadier and his driver were wounded.

Police declined to comment on the identity of the two men wounded on Friday, but a military official said one of the men was a brigadier and the other his driver.

Media were kept at a distance from where the shooting took place.

The army offensive launched in South Waziristan on October 17th was intended to root out Pakistani Taliban militants.

Urban areas in the lawless ethnic Pashtun region on the Afghan border had been witnessing a wave of violence.

In a separate incident… another brigadier and his driver were killed in a similar shooting on October 22nd.

Days later gunmen opened fire at a military vehicle but the occupants escaped unharmed.