Six militants killed, several injured in airstrikes in Khyber Agency
The military has mounted a series of air strikes and ground assaults in Tirah Valley.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk / AFP) – At least six suspected militants have been killed and several others injured when PAF jets pounded their hideouts in Khyber tribal region on Saturday morning, Dunya News reported.
The military has mounted a series of air strikes and ground assaults in Tirah in recent weeks that it says have captured key passes in a remote region that has never before come under full government control.
The operation in Tirah, part of Khyber tribal area, aims to build on the army s offensive against strongholds of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other militant groups in nearby North Waziristan that began in June last year.
Last month the army said it killed at least 230 militants in Tirah, which has long been a hideout for TTP ally Lashkar-e-Islam (LI).
Security officials in the northwest told AFP that the so-called Khyber II operation to shut down LI s hideouts in Tirah began in earnest on March 18, and ground skirmishes are continuing.
