, Pakistain military claimed on Wednesday."Eight soldiers embraced shahdat (martyrdom) during fierce fighting and exchange of fire with terrorists," said a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
This is second phase of Khyber operation named as Khyber-II.
In a separate incident, two members of a peace committee have been injured in Gomal Zam area. One of them is stated to be at death's door.
The information, however, could not be verified independently as access for journalists is restricted in the area.
Earlier in the day, DG ISPR Maj Gen Asim Bajwa told news hounds that more than 1,100 bad boyz were potted during Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
and 44 others during Khyber-I operation. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
he once again declined to give a timeframe for the end of the operations underway in North
Wazoo and Khyber, saying these would continue in the two tribal regions until the areas were cleared.Khyber is among Pakistain's seven semi-autonomous tribal districts near the Afghan border, rife with homegrown murderous Moslems and foreign Lion of Islams. These are also home to religious Lion of Islam organizations including Al Qaeda.
The plains of Bara hold strategic significance for Lion of Islam groups as they connect the agency to the outskirts of 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 area was being used by Lions of Islam to put pressure on the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
capital. In recent weeks, police and military posts in and around Peshawar have come under attack.
The key area also straddles the 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...
supply line into Afghanistan.
Khyber also links several agencies to each other, serving as a north-south route within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). The region has been long fought over by a mix of Lion of Islam organizations, including the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), the Ansarul Islam and Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
's Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver....
.