PESHAWAR: At least 7 suspected militants were killed in air strikes carried out by Pakistan Air Force on Sunday while several hideouts in tribal region has been completed destroyed.
Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has carried out a military operation in Pakistan’s Orakzai, Khyber and Kurram linking mountains, security officials said.
According to senior security sources, PAF deceased at least seven insurgents while several hideout were targeted and completely destroyed in the overnight operation.
“These areas are known as strongholds of the militants from where they stage deadly attacks in Kohat and Peshawar,” one official in Kohat told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Another senior military official in the northwestern frontier city of Peshawar confirmed that air strikes had taken place “somewhere between Orakzai and Khyber”.
“We could hear the sounds of fighter jets and see flames when bombs were dropped in the mountains,” Shafqat Hussain, a local resident in Kohat, said of the overnight operation.
Many Taliban and their al Qaeda allies fled Afghanistan to Pakistan’s tribal areas after the US invasion in 2001. They retreated even deeper into the mountains following a Pakistan army offensive in 2009, launching attacks from places where ground forces cannot reach them.
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