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| Troops kill 18 militants in Mohmand agency |
| 2011-01-26 |
| [Dawn] Pak fighter jets pounded thug hideouts in a rugged tribal region near the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing 18 fighters, an official said. "Security forces targeted thug hideouts in different areas of Mohmand tribal region, killing 18 thugs," senior local administration official Maqsood Amin told AFP. He added that the security forces also destroyed at least 10 thug hideouts. "Most of the hard boyz killed during the operation belonged to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), Amin said. The United States has branded the rugged tribal area, which lies outside Pak government control, a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and the most dangerous place on Earth. Under US pressure to crack down on thug havens along the Afghan border, Pakistain has in the past two years stepped up military operations against largely homegrown hard boyz in the tribal regions. Pakistain launched its most ambitious military offensive yet against Talibs in South Wazoo in 2009, expanding the campaign to many of the other seven semi-autonomous tribal districts along the border. Washington says wiping out the thug threat in Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt is vital to winning the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and defeating Al-Qaeda. |
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