| (KUNA) -- Security forces in a search operation have rounded up more than 100 Taliban militants including a key militants commander, said officials Saturday. The forces conducted a joint house-to-house search operation with local police in Kabal district of Sawat valley on Friday and Saturday, security officials told KUNA. They said more than 100 militants were rounded up including an under-treatment key militant commander, a close aide of Maulana Fazlullah, known as Mullah Radio. Forces have been conducting operation against local fundamentalist cleric Maulana Fazlullah and his supporters in Sawat valley since November. Near 200 militants have been killed and dozens wounded in the operation. |