As evidence, Pakistanis cite two recent strikes against alleged terrorists in Bajaur, a tribal area in the northwest.
On Sunday, 17 Pakistani troops were reported killed in a Taliban attack in the North Waziristan tribal area.
Pakistan denied the charges and mounted air strikes on a militant camp in South Waziristan, a tribal area bordering Afghanistan.
At least 10 paramilitary troops have been found shot dead in a volatile tribal area of north-west Pakistan, security officials say.
Our correspondent says Jhelum is not in a tribal area and is a relatively safe part of Pakistan, where many British Pakistanis are from.
His domain was the Ahmedzai-Wazir tribal area which straddles the Afghan border and this proximity to Afghanistan defined his outlook and many of his loyalties.
More than 100 people were reported killed in Pakistan's tribal area of South Waziristan in days of fighting between local ethnic-Pushtun tribesmen and foreign militants.
His visit come two days after Pakistani troops were reported to have fired shots into the air to stop US troops crossing into the South Waziristan tribal area.
Acting on intelligence information, Sultan said the soldiers began a routine search operation in the South Waziristan region -- a culturally conservative tribal area in Pakistan's semi-autonomous northwestern border region.
At least 17 people have been killed and more than 70 hurt in a car bomb attack on a market in the Khyber tribal area in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
The death of Wali ur Rehman was confirmed by three Pakistani security officials in the North Waziristan region, part of Pakistan's tribal area near the Afghan border, where the strike took place, as well as by local residents.
"He said he was calling from Miranshah in North Waziristan and the telephone number used to make the call carried an area code common to the Waziristan tribal area and Bannu, the adjoining district in the North West Frontier Province, " the paper said.
That's the same ethnic group as the Taliban operating in neighboring Afghanistan and in the nearby mountains of Pakistan's tribal border area.
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Two soldiers and 16 militants were killed in clashes in the Tirah Valley area of the Khyber tribal region in the northwest, the military said in a statement.
As U.S. military, Pakistani forces and Afghan officials sought to piece together the incident, Afghan, U.S. and Western officials said the attack took place in response to fire from the remote Pakistani posts in the Mohmand tribal region, a lawless border area that abuts Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province.
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The Americans have also had some success in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, where a new Anbar Salvation Council of Sunni tribal sheikhs is leading a campaign against al-Qaeda, which may have overreached itself in the area.
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