Pakistan fighter jets pound Taliban in Orakzai

Pakistan fighter jets pound Taliban in Orakzai

On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 fighter jets from the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) pounded Taliban compounds in northwestern tribal area, killing at least 20 Taliban, sources revealed.

The jets targeted hideouts in the tribal Orakzai district and at least four compounds were hit, in the latest surge of fighting between government security forces and militants in the Afghan border areas.

“At least 20 Taliban militants were killed in the bombing,” a military official in Peshawar said.

It is believed that the hideouts belonged to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commanders Mulla Tufan and Commander Moheyuddin.

A security official said that there were reports that Moheyuddin may have been killed in the bombing.

A military official in Peshawar said “four hideouts have been destroyed and the death toll may go up”.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, who is on an official visit to Afghanistan, rejected a NATO report that accused Pakistan for backing Taliban.

Khar insisted that Pakistan did not have any hidden agenda for Afghanistan. “We have no hidden agenda in Afghanistan,” Khar told reporters after meeting President Hamid Karzai, adding that “these claims have been made many, many times.”

The minister went on to add that the report should be “disregarded as potential strategic leak”, characterising the document as “old wine in an even older bottle”.

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Posted by Ammar Ahmad on Feb 2 2012. Filed under Latest News, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry