The airstrikes targeted four hideouts in the remote Ghaljo and Dabori areas of the Orakzai tribal region, the officials said. The locations were being used by members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
The death toll could not be independently verified and militants often dispute official figures.
The Pakistan military has been conducting operations against militants in Orakzai for months.
Several militant groups are active in Pakistan's northwestern semi-autonomous tribal regions, near the border with Afghanistan, including the Pakistan Taliban, responsible for many of the bombings across the country in recent years.
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Did they use Google Satellite Images for accuracy to target the militant hide-outs? What ET means by semi-autonomous regions. How can one call a region semi-autonomous when only One Political Agent and his APAs and Tehsildars can summon the elders of the entire region & the elders can not say a singly word in front of those PAs. Simply by writing Azaad Qabail on the number Plates of their motor cars not make them autonomous. The people of FATA have no control on their own destiny how one can say they are autonomous?
How do they know they were militants and not innocent women and children.
I completely fail to understand how the Military and Government of Pakistan can contemplate the use of a weapon as indiscriminate and excessive in terms of use of force as bombing by aircraft against its own population. This use of aerial bombing is a tactic identified with a foreign military force rather than a national force engaged in a counter-insurgency operation on its own territory. That the aerial bombing is happening during the month of ramzan that is considered holy by Muslims, the relgion followed by the overwheming majority of Pakistani's, reflects a total contempt for the lives of Pakistan’s Pathan / Pushtun citizens.
Americans should learn from us. When our jets strike they only kill militants while American drones kill masoom children.