Islamabad- Pakistani security forces launched operations against the Taliban in an area captured last week by militants, a military spokesman said Tuesday. Meanwhile, troops finished a similar offensive in another northern district near Islamabad, killing up to 75 rebels, the military said.
Jet planes and helicopter gunships targeted militant positions in the mountains surrounding the Buner Valley in the Buner district, 100 kilometres north-west of Islamabad, Major General Athar Abbas told reporters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, adjacent to the capital.
Daggar, Apr 28: A major military operation was launched against Taliban militants in Buner District on Tuesday.
According to the Dawn, the operation was launched when militants refused to heed the government’s warnings and had been kidnapping the young boys for recruitment into the Taliban’s ranks.
Explosions were heard as gunship helicopters pounded militant strongholds in the mountains. A curfew has also been imposed in the district.
Meanwhile, local Taliban blew up the main bridge in Buner’s Ambala area.
Abohar, April 28: Instead of looking at its country’s depleting reputation in the world for being a haven for terrorists and the Taliban in Swat Valley, Radio Pakistan’s prime concern is the welfare of lower caste people in India.
In the latest Punjabi Durbar programme, Radio Pakistan has alleged that people belonging to the SC (Scheduled Caste) and ST
(Scheduled Tribes) in India are subjected to inhuman treatment in India.
London, Apr 28: Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Kiyani has done an about-turn from his quiet, but shocking position that the Government’s appeasement of the Taliban in the Swat Valley was a necessary step, a leading UK based daily has said.
His view, it has emerged in the year and a half since his appointment, is that the army was built to fight India, not Pakistanis, The Times has said.
General Kiyani seems to suggest that the Taliban is merely an uncomfortable phenomenon.
Peshawar, Apr 28: More than 30,000 people in Lower Dir have been displaced by a Pakistani military offensive to flush out Taliban militants.
Thousands of terrified women and children left the area after troops and helicopter gunships launched Operation Black Thunder
“Up to 30,000 people have left Maidan in Lower Dir district over the past few days,” Iftikhar Hussain, the NWFP Information Minister, told reporters here.
“We are making arrangements for them in Peshawar, Nowshera and Timargarah districts,” he said.
Islamabad- Pakistani security forces launched operations against the Taliban in an area captured last week by militants, a military spokesman said Tuesday. Meanwhile, troops finished a similar offensive in another northern district near Islamabad, killing up to 75 rebels, the military said.
Daggar, Apr 28: A major military operation was launched against Taliban militants in Buner District on Tuesday.
Abohar, April 28: Instead of looking at its country’s depleting reputation in the world for being a haven for terrorists and the Taliban in Swat Valley, Radio Pakistan’s prime concern is the welfare of lower caste people in India. 
London, Apr 28: Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Kiyani has done an about-turn from his quiet, but shocking position that the Government’s appeasement of the Taliban in the Swat Valley was a necessary step, a leading UK based daily has said.
Peshawar, Apr 28: More than 30,000 people in Lower Dir have been displaced by a Pakistani military offensive to flush out Taliban militants.
