The strikes targeted hideouts in Miranshah, Machis Camp and Mir Ali Bazaar areas of the tribal agency. PHOTO: ISPR
The strikes targeted hideouts in Miranshah, Machis Camp and Mir Ali Bazaar areas of the tribal agency.
"Security forces fired mortar shells from Miranshah fort on the adjacent areas of Machis camp, Kharwani and Sukhail Wazir Friday morning, followed by pounding suspected militant hideouts with gunship helicopters," an intelligence official based in Miranshah told AFP.
The official said four suspected militants were killed and later security forces carried out a door to door search, arresting five others.
In the latest offensive, which started on May 21, at least 74 suspected militants have been killed in the air strikes and ground fighting in North Waziristan.
A curfew has been imposed in these areas for the past three days.
On Wednesday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) issued a statement saying, over the past few weeks, a “large number of civilians and security personnel have embraced shahadat due to various terrorist acts, including IED blasts and suicide attacks in Fata, K-P and Karachi.” The ISPR stated that intelligence reports and other investigations confirmed links of these terrorist acts with the terrorists targeted.
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@Pakhtuns: "Leave Pakhtuns alone.." . Would you dare to say the same to others too?
We fully support the government of Pakistani in their efforts to negate the threat of terrorism, and wish to see peace prevail throughout the region.
Ali Khan Digital Engagement Team, USCENTCOM
Leave Pakhtuns alone.
We fully support the government of Pakistan on their efforts to negate the threat of terrorism, and wish to see peace prevail throughout the region.
Ali Khan Digital Engagement Team, USCENTCOM
@wiseguy: You are intelligent unlike most of the media controlled sheep. If we had been wiser, we would never have been part of this war. It isn't ours, after all, we survived 60 years without a single bullet being fired either side apart of small rebel skirmishes.
This should have been done a long ago. Whoever say this is not solution and they are our own people, I ask them were those who have been killed by these elements were not our people? Were they not loved once of somebody. Enough is enough. Either we eradicate TTP or lose Pakistan in the hands of terrorists.
It was long awaited. Thanks Pak Army for your sacrifices and efforts to eradicate these elements from our land. Don't spare them at all.
Great Job Pak army. Please keep sending taliban to their hoors. Clean up and kill them all.
Why these bombings produce such meager results? Is it becuase they don't have quality targets to hit?
Nahi bhai 200 million :P
Alhamdulillah! Good going Pak Army! Keep at it, the 180 million of Pakistan are all with you!