Islamabad - Pakistan's Army said Wednesday it killed at least 11 Islamic militants in the restive Swat district of the country's North Western Frontier Province.
"Our troops targeted insurgents' positions with artillery fire in Kuza Bandai area of the district this morning. According to initial reports, 11 miscreants were killed and numerous were injured in the action," army spokesman Major Murad Khan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Security forces cordoned off the area and were trying to clear out pockets of resistance, he added.
Pakistan has always played a double game as far as extending cooperation with the US in catching Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden (after 9/11 attacks) is considered, said a detailed article published in the Washington Post.
Lahore, Sept 10 : To overcome the country’s worst ever budget deficit, the Pakistan Government is reportedly mulling over selling some of its valuable energy assets to private players, first in the list of such assets being a major gas field.
After miserably failing to catch international fugitive and Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden for nearly seven years, after 9/11 2001, both American and Pakistani officials have reportedly started reviewing their policy and are now shifting their tactics to intensify the use of the unmanned but lethal Predator drone spy planes in the mountains of western Pakistan.
Officials at the Afghan embassy in Islamabad have claimed that one of the three sons of Pakistan-American neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqi was in Afghan authorities’ custody, and that he would be repatriated to Pakistan only after legal formalities were completed.
