[DAWN] Since the last phase of Operation 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!)...
kicked off in February, at least 252 forces of Evil have been killed and 160 severely injured, while security forces have cleared 640 square kilometres of a so far uncontrolled area in Shawal Valley of North Wazoo Agency, the Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement on Sunday.
So the Haqqanis are all dead now? And Mangal Bagh? What'd they do wit Zawahiri when they bagged him?
"Major terrorist hubs" in Mana, Gurbaz, Lataka, Inzarkas and Magrotai areas have been cleared of holy warriors. it added.
"The battle to clear the last pocket close to the Pak-Afghan border continues," the statement said, adding that all heights over 9,000 feet have been cleared.
"Terrorists' hideouts were destroyed, a cache of arms and ammunition recovered and there was virtually no communications infrastructure remaining in the Shawal area once the operation was launched in Feb this year," the statement said.
Since the beginning of the operation in June 2014, security forces have cleared 4,304 sq km in North Waziristan and "restored writ of the government in all areas, specially in remote pockets of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas", the ISPR said.