Pakistan

Airstrikes kill 17 militants in Khyber Agency

Strikes in the Rajgal area of the Khyber Agency also destroy four militant hideouts, ammunition dump

Afp November 27, 2015

The strikes were part of a major offensive aimed at clearing Taliban and al Qaeda strongholds that began last year in North Waziristan. PHOTO: EXPRESS

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Air Force fighter jets killed 17 militants on Friday in airstrikes carried out near the Afghan border, the military said in a statement.

The strikes in the Rajgal area of the Khyber Agency also destroyed four militant hideouts and an ammunition dump, it said.

"Seventeen terrorists including some foreigners were killed in the aerial strikes in the remote area of Rajgal," a brief military statement said.

The strikes were part of a major offensive aimed at clearing Taliban and al Qaeda strongholds that began last year in North Waziristan, one of seven Pakistani tribal districts bordering Afghanistan.

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The military began the offensive in Khyber in October 2014, carrying out air strikes and using artillery, mortars and ground troops.

The army then intensified and expanded its offensive after the Taliban massacred more than 150 people, the majority of them children, at a school in Peshawar last December.

COMMENTS (4)

Walsh | 9 years ago | Reply @Rex Minor: Actually we are concerned because some Bihindians army soldiers killed innocent sikhs in guise of militants after they destroyed and desecrated the golden temple. We take the lives of our people seriously.

Skywalker | 9 years ago | Reply @Rex Minor: Pakistan is the only nation in the modern world which uses air-strikes against its own citizens. I find this disturbing.

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Rex Minor | 9 years ago | Reply @Skywalker: Please publish, names, photos and nationality of those killed. Is the term 'militant' not the right name for the dead, alternatively they could be regarded as the collateral damage. You must reckon that a Paki pilot has the electronic eye to recognise who the victims were? Rex Minor

Skywalker | 9 years ago | Reply Good job!! “Seventeen terrorists including some foreigners were killed in the aerial strikes in the remote area of Rajgal,” a brief military statement said. Please publish, names, photos and nationality of those killed.

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