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23 militants killed in North Waziristan, Khyber Agency airstrikes
[PAKISTANTODAY.PK] As many as 23 bad boys, including foreigners, were killed during "A huge ammunition dump was also blown up in strikes in Khyber Agency  ," Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.Two intelligence officials, on anonymity, said the latest air strikes killed the holy warriors in the Zoinari area of North Waziristan. "We got information that local and imported muscle were hiding in this area," said one of the officials. "Strikes were launched and 10 holy warriors were killed. Three hideouts were also completely destroyed." Militants used to control all of North Waziristan, a mountainous region that includes the Shawal Valley and runs along the Afghan border but Pakistain Army has recaptured most of it in the operation launched last June. NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... forces had long urged Pakistain for such an offensive, saying Taliban safe havens in Pakistain were being used to attack NATO and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. Since last month, the military has stepped up operations in Shawal Valley, where the Taliban still operates freely. The area is a stronghold of Khan "Sajna" Said, a leader of a Taliban faction whose name was added to a sanctions list of "specially designated global terrorists" by US authorities last year. Most phone lines to the area have been cut and military roadblocks curtail civilian movement. The Pak Taliban mainly fight against the government in Islamabad and are separate from, but allied with, the Afghan Taliban that ruled Afghanistan in the late 1990s before being expelled in a US-led intervention. Both groups send fighters against Afghanistan's Western-backed government. Afghan officials have said the Mighty Pak Army offensive has driven large numbers of fighters over the border, complicating the war in Afghanistan's east and north. Posted by: Fred 2015-06-29 |
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