Pakistan fighter jets kill 22 militants
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, March 1, IRNA -- Pakistan fighter jets bombed Taliban hideouts in a northwest tribal region on Thursday, killing 22 insurgents, state television reported.
The attack struck in Orakzai agency, where the military is carrying out operation to clear the area of the Taliban militants. PTV reported that 28 other militants were also injured in the early morning air strikes. The report said that several hideouts of the militants were also destroyed. There was no independent confirmation of the reports as journalists had no access to the region and they depend only on state media or local TV channels report. Orakzai, the only tribal area of Pakistan’s seven tribal regions which does not have borders with Afghanistan, had been considered the stronghold of Taliban militants. Security officials say that the army has cleared most of the areas of Taliban but they are still hiding in remote areas. They say that militants from South Waziristan have also arrived in Orakzai agency due to military operation there. The security forces stepped up attacks against the militants blamed for fresh wave of blasts and attacks in Pakistan’s northwest in recent days. Six people were killed and several others were injured in a Taliban motorcycle bomb attack near the public meeting of the ruling party in Nowshehra on Monday. On February 23 a car bomb killed 13 people and injured nearly 40 others at a bus stop in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. People heading to the volatile North Waziristan came under attack. Gunmen shot dead 18 Shiite Muslims in northern Kohistan region on Tuesday. A militant Jundullah group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Islamic Republic News Agency/IRNA NewsCode: 80015092
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