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35 terrorists killed in fresh air strikes in N Waziristan
*Foreign terrorists among those killed as terrorist hideouts bombed
PESHAWAR: At least 35 terrorists were killed on Sunday as the armed forces carried out fresh airstrikes in North Waziristan Agency.
According to a statement by Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR), hideouts of militants were bombed in Datta Khel area of the North Waziristan Agency as part of the ongoing military operation Zarb-e-Azb. At least 35 militants, including some foreign terrorists, were killed while several hideouts were also destroyed. Zarb-e-Azb was launched by the Pakistan Army in June last year and more than 1,000 Taliban militants have been killed in it.
A US drone strike had killed at least four suspected militants in North Waziristan on January 20, four intelligence officials said, the fourth such strike this year. Two missiles hit a compound in the Shahi Khel area of Shawal Valley in North Waziristan, near the border with Afghanistan, the officials said. “Through our local sources and intercepts, (we know) a drone fired two missiles at a compound in the Shawal area and killed four militants,” an intelligence official told Reuters.
The attack came a month after 134 school children were killed by Taliban insurgents, the worst single assault in the country’s history. Strikes resumed in June, days before the military launched an anti-Taliban operation in North Waziristan. US officials do not publicly speak about individual strikes. Drone strikes in Pakistan have been gradually decreasing from a high in 2010, when there were 128.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk