Wazoo tribal region using mortar fires and rockets in retaliation to yesterday's aristrikes conducted by the military in the region, a front man of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.A local commanding officer of the Pakistain Army responded effectively to the attack on a military camp in Machis Factory village near 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...
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Soldiers maimed in an encounter in Mirali area a day earlier were shifted to Combine Military Hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, the statement further said.
The front man also made it clear that no air strikes were carried out in North Waziristan today.
Earlier security sources had claimed that, air strikes targeting suspected krazed killer hideouts continued in parts of the North Waziristan tribal region for a second day on Thursday.
They claimed that the fresh offensive had destroyed a number of Death Eater bases and had killed several Death Eaters.
Moreover, official sources claimed that following the
Since yesterday, at least 73 suspected local and foreign gunnies have been killed in a series of air strikes on hideouts and bases in North Waziristan and in a later clash following an attack on security personnel. An army major and three other security personnel died in that clash.
The targets of Wednesday's air strikes were strongholds of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (Etim) -- a krazed killer outfit comprising largely Turkic-speaking gunnies from Uzbekistan and Uighurs from China's north-western autonomous region of Xinjiang.
Following Wednesday's strikes, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that the air attacks were in retaliation for the killing of "a large number of civilians and security forces personnel" by gunnies in Fata, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...