... which is owned and operated by Hafiz Gul Behadur...
of North
Wazoo tribal region on Sunday.According to Inter-Services Public Relations, the army personnel and seven gunnies were killed during a search operation and four soldiers were maimed in a clash.
Maj Wasif, Subedar Jahangir Sadique and Sepoy Nazir bit the dust in the gunbattle.
The incident took place a day after Maj Gen Zafarullah Khan, the officer in charge of North Waziristan, claimed that the ongoing Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
military operation had reduced the Death Eaters' ability to carry out attacks.
Another 27 suspected gunnies were killed when military planes and helicopter gunships attacked their hideouts and compounds.
A blurb issued by ISPR said two local Death Eater leaders and foreigners were among the dead. The air strikes followed a Death Eater attack on security personnel at Spera Ghar at about 4am.
The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban's Gul Bahadar group grabbed credit for the attack carried out in an area about 45km from the agency headquarters, Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
Talking to news hounds by phone, the group's front man Ahmadullah Ahmadi claimed that 16 soldiers had been killed and six military bunkers taken over by Death Eaters.
"We will respond to the military operation through 'Zarb-e-Moneen'," he said.
According to Rooters, military sources said eight soldiers were missing after gunnies attacked a checkpost with rockets and grenades.
A curfew was imposed in Dattakhel and soldiers were combing the area around the Spera Ghar checkpoint for their missing colleagues, they said.
The area is closed to journalists unless they travel with the military and most of the civilian residents -- around a million people -- were ordered to leave their homes till the offensive continued.