Taliban attacked an army convoy in Miranshah in North Waziristan Agency on Friday with a remote-controlled bomb, injuring two security personnel.The convoy was travelling from Bannu to Miranshah when the bomb exploded at Pir Kali, 20 kilometres east of Miranshah on Bannu-Miranshah road.
Meanwhile, security forces pounded suspected Taliban hideouts in Mamoond and Nawagai tehsils of Bajaur Agency. Thirteen Taliban were killed and five others were injured.
Sources said the security forces were backed by jet aircraft, which bombed Damadola, Tani Khwar, Suprey, Kharkay, Gatki, Charmang, Kotki, Zorband and Glokas Shinkot.
Attacks in the morning killed three Taliban in Mamoond, while late afternoon attacks by security forces and jet aircraft killed 10 Taliban in both Mamoond and Nawagai, the sources said. Several Taliban hideouts were destroyed.
Meanwhile, defunct Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Maulvi Umer denied the group had carried out Thursday's suicide attack at a mosque in Badan. He said the TTP did not believe in violence and wanted solution to problems through dialogue.
AFP quoted local government official Muhammad Jamil as saying "The airstrike killed 14 militants and wounded 10 others." NNI quoted a private television channel as saying that a local Taliban commander was killed in the operation in Mamoond.