NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Bombardment by jet planes in North Waziristan on Monday killed at least 50 terrorists, the ISPR reported.
According to the ISPR, the action taken in Shawal and Ghurlamai areas ‘destroyed the infrastructure of militants.’
A weapons depot was also destroyed in the air assault.
Earlier today, the ISPR reported that 15 terrorists were killed in air strikes conducted by security forces in Khyber Agency.
The air strikes were carried out in the Rajgal area of Khyber Agency near the Pak-Afghan border.
Earlier, Air strikes killed at least 24 suspected militants in their northwestern strongholds on Monday, intelligence officials said.
Two intelligence officials, who declined to be identified as they were not authorized to speak on the record, said that Monday’s air strikes took place at 10 a.m. in the Zoi Nari, Lataka, Mizer Madakhel and Shawal areas of North Waziristan.
“Jet air shelling destroyed six militant hideouts and killed 24 militants hiding in this area,” said one of the officials, adding that the dead included some foreigners. A second official also confirmed the deaths.
The deeply forested ravines of Shawal Valley and Datta Khel are a smuggling route between Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, and are dotted with militant bases used as launch pads for attacks on country’s security forces.