Peshawar—The security forces said on Sunday that
up to 85 insurgents or the Taliban have been
killed in Swat and Mohmand Agency. The military
sources also said that as the operation against
the miscreants in Malakand division continued,
the forces could manage to gun down between 180
to 200 militants in Swat and Shangla districts
during the last 24 hours. However the claim has
been rejected by the militants.
Washington—The U.S. Agency for International
Development, the U.S. government’s corps of
international do-gooders, wants to build its own
air force to support the mission in Afghanistan.
Ghalanai—At least 26 militants were killed,
fourteen other sustained injuries during a clash
between security forces and Taliban militants in
Mohmanad Agency on Sunday. According to the
Frontier Constabulary sources, as many as 26
miscreants were killed and 14 others injured in
various skirmishes occurred at Tehsil Anbar,
Hadkor and other areas.
Washington—General David Petraeus, chief of the
US Central Command on Sunday reaffirmed
Pentagon’s confidence in the safety of
Pakistan’s nuclear assets as he also
acknowledged a much broader backing for
Islamabad’s ongoing anti-Taliban operation in
the northwestern Swat valley region.
Islamabad—Foreign refugee organizations have
estimated that as many a million people may be
displaced due to the military action against
militants who played havoc from FATA and Swat to
other areas of NWFP.
Islamabad—The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet
Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has deplored
that despite India’s tall claims of being a
democratic country its troops are continuously
engaged in genocide in occupied Kashmir to
suppress Kashmiris’ liberation struggle.
