Opration In Waziristan

Updated at: 2026 PST,  Monday, April 12, 2010
 RAWALPINDI: Fifteen militants including a commander were killed in a clash with security forces in Jandola area adjacent to South Waziristan while a security man also embraced shahadat.

According to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), militants launched an assault on a check post of security forces in FR Jandola area located near South Waziristan, killing a security man.

Security forces repulsed forcefully and killed 15 militants including a commander identified as Usmanullah.

Those killed included nationals from Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and Uzbekistan.

HANGU: Ten people were killed and several injured when a suicide bomber attack a caravan of passenger buses in Tehsil Tal of district Hangu near petrol pump, sources told Geo News.

Commissioner Kohat Khalid Khan said that the blast occurred in a border area. The bomber was on foot, he added.

The caravan was going to Kurram Agency. Three vehicles were damaged. Dead bodies and injured were being shifted to CMH Tal and other hospitals.

 
 KHAR: Inspector General Frontier Corps Major General Tariq Khan has said that security forces have regained full control of Bajaur besides killing 54 more militants, including seven key Taliban commanders.

While ongoing operations in Orakzai Agency and Teerah will also be completed soon, he announced.

Meanwhile, Director General Inter-Services Public Relation (ISPR) Maj-Gen Athar Abbas announced new offensive will not be launched in South Waziristan until the situation returns to normal.

Speaking to newsmen along with DG ISPR, the FC IG said a key militant commander Orangzaib, who was allegedly behind 21 suicide bombings in Punjab, is also among the dead.

To a question, Khan said the house of former MNA Haroon Rashid had become the hub of militants. It was destroyed under the FCR law. While Rashid’s brother was arrested in connection with supporting militants, Khan said.

The FC IG said that Khan of Kunar is supporting militants in Afghan province of Kunar.

Responding to a question, he said that recovery of Indian arms from country’s tribal areas and heavy presence of Indian consulates in Afghanistan raises so many questions.

CHARSADDA: Four militants were killed in trade of fire between security forces and militants in Charsadda whereas forces also recovered material used in making of a suicide jacket and explosives during search operation.

Sources said when security forces raided a house in Nishanabad area of Umerzai near Charsadda, militants opened fire on them. Four militants were killed in forces retaliatory firing. Four personnel and a women sustained injuries and were shifted to CMH Mardan. The bodies of militants shifted to district headquarter hospital

PESHAWAR: The security forces arrested at least 50 suspected people and recovered from their possession arms and drugs in Khyber Agency tehsil of Jamrood, Geo News reported Sunday.

According to the FC sources, the search operation was launched in Tehsil Jamrood area of Wazir Dand against miscreants involved in rackets relating kidnapping for ransom and drugs.

At least 50 people were arrested in the joint search operation launched by the security forces and Khasadar Force. The forces also recovered from their custody huge cache of arms and drugs.

Reportedly 30 terrorists have been killed by security forces through aerial strike this morning in Shawal Mountains, South Waziristan Agency.

Security Forces targeted the terrorists hideouts in Shawal Mountains in South Waziristan after receipt of a tip off that terrorists are hiding in Shawal Mountains in South Waziristan Agency.

WANA: At least seven militants were killed and five injured during ongoing military operation against Taliban in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) on right after Thursday morning, Geo news reported ISPR sources as saying.

According to sources, reports regarding deadly clashes between security forces and militants reached here early on morning in parts of SWA including Sherongi, Laddha Road, Momi Karam, Kot Kai and Sararogha areas, which resulted in deaths of seven militants, leaving five others injured.

Meanwhile, security forces troops are advancing towards militants’ key strongholds in region, sources added.

At least 8 militants were killed when security forces bombed their hideouts in different areas of South Waziristan. According to official sources, eight militants were killed and five others injured in the bombing and shelling of gunship helicopters in Makeen, Saloshti, Mami Karama and Kanigaram. Many hideouts were also destroyed in the bombardment. Security forces are advancing towards Mami Karama and Kanigaram from Saloshti. Security forces are facing stiff resistance at Mami Karama. On the other hand, security forces also moving towards Sararoga from Kotki.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani troops massed outside a key Taliban base and killed 25 militants, fighting back in a major tribal belt offensive after a devastating market bomb attack, the military said Wednesday.

The latest death toll brings to 264 the total number of insurgents reported to have been killed since the operation was launched in the rugged tribal terrain of South Waziristan on October 17.

No information provided by the army can be verified, however, as communication lines are down and access to the area on the wild Afghan border is banned to journalists and aid workers.

"Security forces have surrounded Kanigurram from three sides," military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told a news conference.

The town was considered the "operational centre" of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), he said. It was a major terror stronghold and an important base for Uzbek fighters in the area, he added.

Abbas also said troops were within four kilometres (2.5 miles) of another major Taliban hub, Sararogha, which lies to the east.

The military spokesman condemned Wednesday's carnage in the northwestern city of Peshawar where a bomb killed 92 people in a crowded market frequented mostly by women. "This cowardly act shows their desperation," he said.

Despite the attack, which was apparently calculated to exact maximum casualties, Abbas insisted the militants were on the defensive as troops were making steady gains into TTP territory.

"Their leadership is on the run," he said, claiming that 25 training centres and nine caves had been recently destroyed.

Around 30,000 troops are taking part in the offensive against an estimated 10-12,000 militants in the semi-autonomous and lawless tribal belt. Relief workers say more than 200,000 people have been displaced by the fighting.

Numerous previous offensives in the tribal belt have had limited success, costing the lives of 2,000 troops and ending generally with peace agreements that critics say gave the insurgents a chance to re-arm.