Pakistan’s army says its jets have killed
at least 18 fighters as part of an ongoing
offensive to eliminate armed
groups’ hideouts and ammunition stockpiles
in the Khyber tribal region.
An army statement on Sunday said the jets
destroyed five such hideouts with “precise
strikes” during the offensive late Saturday
night.
Besides the fighters killed, the army said the
strikes destroyed huge caches of arms and
ammunition hidden in various parts of the
region, near the Afghan border.
The Pakistani army is now regularly
targeting rebel hideouts in Khyber region,
since fighters fled there from North
Waziristan tribal region where it has been
conducting military operation since mid-June.
The offensive has also driven thousands of
local tribesmen to leave their areas and head
for safety in the main northwestern city of
Peshawar.
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