Wazoo, the military's media wing said on Wednesday.The Inter-Services Public Relations further said that 14 more suspected
left... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
/>, taking the total corpse count from Wednesday's air strikes to 31.
The conflict zone of North Waziristan is off-limits to journalists making it difficult to verify the army's claims, including the number and identity of those killed.
Earlier this week, an attempted suicide kaboom on the Political Agent office in Khyber Agency's Jamrud area left four people ─ including two Khasadar Levies men ─ dead and 56 others injured.
Since the beginning 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!)...
in June 2014,
In June this year, on the eve of the operation's first anniversary, the army said it had eliminated 2,763 bully boyz during the year. There has, however, been no explanation as to how this precise figure about krazed killer casualties has been collected because a large number of them are said to have been killed in strikes by Pakistain Air Force jets.
At that time, officials had said another 218 terrorist had been killed in intelligence-based operations (IBOs) conducted in other parts of the country to prevent the feared backlash of Zarb-e-Azb. The IBOs are flaunted by the military as a major success story.
But, this has come at the cost of 347 troops and displacement of over a million people.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
Pakistain strongly condemned Tuesday's US drone strike in the north-western area of the North Waziristan Agency, which resulted in at least five casualties.
The drone, according to sources, fired two missiles on a compound in Karwanda village in Dattakhel, 40km to the west of regional headquarters of 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...
, at 11pm.
FO front man Qazi Khalilullah said Pakistain condemns such strikes "which are in disregard of our territorial illusory sovereignty and international law."
"These strikes also generate distrust among the local populace. We reiterate our call for cessation of such strikes," the front man remarked.