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Pak jets pound Bajaur, kill 3 militants
Pakistani fighter jets have pounded militant positions killing three as the army continued its offensive in the troubled Bajaur agency. The air strike took place in the Mamoond district of the northwestern tribal agency on Sunday in the latest development since the launch of major military operations in the region in August. Several dens and hideout were also destroyed as heavily armed security forces backed by gunships attacked militant positions, a Press TV correspondent reported. The army has said more than 1,500 insurgents have been killed in the volatile region that is widely viewed as a militant safe haven after Taliban and al-Qaeda militants streamed across the border into Pakistan's tribal belt following the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan that toppled Taliban's regime. The Pakistani army has praised the operations as proof that it is capable of handling the insurgency in Pakistan's tribal areas and has slammed the United States for repeatedly 'violating' its sovereignty in cross-border attacks from war-torn Afghanistan with under the pretext that it is also targeting militants. Posted by: Fred 2008-12-22 |
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