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Areas beyond Dattakhel being cleared: Bajwa
[DAWN] The military declared on Wednesday that important areas had been cleared of hard boyz and operation Zar-e-Azb was progressing successfully in North  Wazoo Agency.Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Asim Bajwa said at a presser here that Mirali, Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , Razmak and Ghulam Khan had been cleared of Taliban, while a battle was on to take control of areas beyond Dattakhel. He said about 1,100 hard boyz had been killed during Zar-e-Azb and 44 in the Khyber-I operation. "One hundred hard boyz have surrendered to the forces," he said. The front man didn't give a deadline for completing the operations that are under way in North Waziristan and Khyber Agency and said the military campaigns would continue till clearance of the areas. Maj Gen Bajwa also didn't give a date for the return of the people displaced from both tribal regions and said the army would hand over the areas to the administration after defeating terrorists. He said Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif wanted to send the displaced people to their homes at the earliest. Posted by: Fred 2014-10-31 |
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