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| 17 militants killed in FR Kohat operation |
| 2010-02-27 |
| [The News (Pak) Top Stories] Seventeen militants were killed while a soldier sustained injuries in a clean-up operation in the Pastawana area of the Frontier Region (FR), Kohat, on Friday, official sources said. More contingents of the Frontier Police and the Frontier Constabulary were deployed in Adezai, Matani and other villages of Peshawar district during the operation named "Spring Cleaning" being carried out in the semi-tribal area. Unannounced curfew remained clamped over the villages near Peshawar on Thursday and Friday. A fresh operation has been going on against the miscreants in FR Kohat and FR Peshawar since Thursday. "Seventeen miscreants were killed while a soldier was wounded during the operation carried out in Pastawana town," a spokesman for the Frontier Corps Major Fazal told The News. Besides, security forces were reported to have recovered two suicide jackets and a cache of ammunition during the clean-up operation. |
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