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PESHAWAR: At least 25 suspected militants were killed early on Tuesday as F-16 jets bombed militant hideouts in the Tirah valley along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, military sources said.
Military jets targeted nine suspected insurgent hideouts in various parts of the Kokikhel area in Tirah valley of the Khyber tribal region, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed.
Pakistani fighter jets have been pounding targets in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) for the past couple of weeks.
The air strikes are the latest in a succession of such attacks carried out by the Pakistani military in the tribal belt this year.
The last were carried out in North Waziristan in late May, killing at least 75 people and causing some 58,000 people to flee from the district in fear of a fuller ground offensive that has been anticipated for years.
The Khyber district itself was targeted previously in April in aerial bombing that killed 37 people.
The district is believed to be home to several militant factions, most notably Lashkar-i-Islam, led by warlord Mangal Bagh, as well foreign fighters from Central Asia.
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Jun 10, 2014 09:29am
Good Job. Pak Armed Forces salutes to you...
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Jun 10, 2014 09:38am
Long Live PAF. Pakistan Zindabad
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Jun 10, 2014 09:40am
Please don't stop till the cancer as well as the mindset is completed removed from Pakistan.
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Jun 10, 2014 09:49am
KEEP IT UP, JAWANO.
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Jun 10, 2014 09:52am
Good Job!
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Jun 10, 2014 09:52am
yeh ! keep it up, Carrot session is over now sticking in session.
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Jun 10, 2014 09:55am
Good Job!
Kill them all, they are not only cancer for Pak society but all humanity.
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Jun 10, 2014 09:55am
Really appreciate teh PAF action. they should do it more as writ of GOVt is chellenged. in my opinion people who think they are muslims, but actually these are people used by big powers to make our country and muslim ummah image bad in fromt of world.
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Jun 10, 2014 09:55am
Please keep pounding them & round them up from cities and put them on trial. For survival for Pakistan these vermin and their supporters must be eliminated.
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Jun 10, 2014 09:56am
Welldone Army... please crush them once for all... nation is in support of your action.
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Jun 10, 2014 09:58am
How they count the dead from such height & speed?
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Jun 10, 2014 10:01am
Well done.... Well done... Well done PAF... Please keep doing it and eradicate the beasts completely from motherland.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:01am
Long live Pakistan's Armed forces, the only hope for Pakistan betterment.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:01am
Bravo!... A little late but well done....... This should have been done years ago....
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Jun 10, 2014 10:07am
why not feet on the ground ? Why allow this air bombing which kills innocent civilians a la US Drones? Why the double standards? or does the army not wish to do this the old fashioned way, and hope air force will neutralise the bad guys, with some acceptable"collateral damage"?
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Jun 10, 2014 10:14am
Awesome PAF... do not spare them.... Kill them all. They have killed our innocent beloved countrymen
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Jun 10, 2014 10:16am
Please don't stop now! It's been over 12 years of going back & forth. It's time to go for an all out war and eliminate them all. After what they did at Karachi Airport, even if they beg to talk, Pak government and Armed Forces must not!!! Every Pakistani who love their country and leave it behind for their generations, is behind you.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:16am
Pakistan Zindabad....
Pakistan Army Paindabad...Down With taliban terrorist..
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Jun 10, 2014 10:17am
@Shahid Hussain Khokhar... Salutes to Pakistan Armed Forces
Pakistan Zindabad
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Jun 10, 2014 10:25am
The only way Pakistani people will ever see piece in their lives if the government and Army sincerely try to eliminate all the terrorists and their supporters whether they are politicians or Army generals. If that really happens then that will be new heavenly day in Pakistan's history. God bless Pakistan and it's people.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:26am
for how long will this cat and mouse game continue ?!!? Its time to finish the job now.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:29am
That's what they are good at.... Conquering Islamabad (every 10 years), bombing and killing their own people.....otherwise..........they literally lost every war they fought.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:29am
@Shahid Hussain Khokhar - killing few terrorists here and there is not a good job yet until the job is completely done then we all can say good job pak army.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:30am
These pilots are killers!
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Jun 10, 2014 10:30am
Al-hamdu lillah-e Rabbil Aalameen. ([All] praise is [due] to Allah , Lord of the worlds). It is Allah who has inspired the government and military leaders of Pakistan to act to defend Pakistan and it is Allah who will help them in this task, Insha Allah.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:35am
@Shahid Hussain Khokhar Wow to kill the innocent people is good job what an irony! Mind you they said suspected militants not convicted ones!
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Jun 10, 2014 10:41am
Ha Ha Ha all the all the comments are splendid as to kill our own people who safeguarded us from foreign hostility during Wars in past. You can never eradicate them as you could not for last 14 years and dialogue is the only channel towards solution. Moreover Government got some evidences of foreign hands involvement of as usual but no one will raise his voice against it in terms of being blessed with $
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Jun 10, 2014 10:45am
Bingo !
Don't stop before rooting the barbarians out
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Jun 10, 2014 10:46am
Hit them more...!! you have support of the entire Pakistan
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Jun 10, 2014 10:50am
The military jets targeted nine suspected hideouts in various parts of the Kokikhel area in Tirah valley of the Khyber tribal region, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:52am
Hit them hard. This operation should continue 24/7 till the time TTP supremos come to their senses.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:57am
They will leave and come back again, when we sleep! There has to be a more effective strategy!
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Jun 10, 2014 11:02am
Keep Up the Great work Pak Army!!!!!!! eliminate them like roaches that they are. Long live Pakistan!!!!, Long Live Pakistan Armed Forces!!!
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Jun 10, 2014 11:06am
Keep it up guys
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Jun 10, 2014 11:17am
@kashif
Dead figures must not be provided by Air Force. These counts usually depends on local resources.
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Jun 10, 2014 11:23am
these airstrikes mean nothing. the history is way too long.
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Jun 10, 2014 11:33am
@Ahmad Ali Rafi These Brave Pilots are the Pride of our Nation. We salutes them for their action
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Jun 10, 2014 11:50am
Well done PAF. Though if you guys were aware of the terrorists hiding place, you should have done this earlier itself instead of waiting for them to strike first.
Also make sure you don't end up killing innocent civilians on the ground. In air strike one can never be sure.
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Jun 10, 2014 11:52am
Only 15? I like to see 1500 or more. Keep going Paki army
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Jun 10, 2014 11:53am
Good Job Done all nation is with you.....
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Jun 10, 2014 11:54am
Great Job, Pakistan Air Force. Wipe them out !!!
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Jun 10, 2014 12:19pm
nail em! nail em!!
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Jun 10, 2014 12:31pm
Not a peep from Imran Khan? I thought so.
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Jun 10, 2014 12:32pm
Well done PAF. But ensure to avoid collateral damage...
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Jun 10, 2014 12:37pm
We cant defeat these people and their ideology by brute force. Military action needs to be supplemented by a an intensive rehabilitation program. They need to realize the error or their ways!
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Jun 10, 2014 12:37pm
They killed 13 of ours....we MUST kill 39 of them ...because that is the only language they understand.
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Jun 10, 2014 12:41pm
@AdHawk Why do you want IK peeping?
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Jun 10, 2014 12:55pm
"At least 15 suspected militants were killed....."
Are their any guarantees that the suspects were all militants and not ordinary civilians and children. Based on experience and events in FATA it may well be the case of the latter? that innocent civilians were killed and this breeds the cycle of violence and terror.
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Jun 10, 2014 01:04pm
Taliban ko to US or Russia bhi nahi hara saka, tum kaise haraoge
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Jun 10, 2014 01:16pm
Without thought too many jump at "well done". Easy to say if not on your doorstep. What people fail to realise is where did all this stem from? Non existent before 2001.
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Jun 10, 2014 01:39pm
kill these rats in their holes...burn them Pak army, we are with you
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Jun 10, 2014 02:12pm
@Ali They are the reason you sleep at night, they are the reason you live in a muslim land, they are the reason we keep our heads high even with all the turmoil, they are the reason the world fears our motherland. They are the 7th biggest army in the world.
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Jun 10, 2014 02:12pm
Those who carry the guns to kill the innocent people claiming themselves so called Muslims; in fact they have no religion.
They are the enemies of human even enemies of GOD.
We salute to our Security forces for their utmost efforts to bring peace & stability in Pakistan. Pak Army, PAF & Pakistan Zindabad.
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Jun 10, 2014 02:35pm
PAF you are doing a great job. Congratulations!
We cannot talk to deafs. They do not listen. They will hear bombs in their bedrooms.
Please show no mercy to these wild swines. Bomb them until they become human beings. They wanted to reduce our country to stone age. They deserve no better! let no one threaten any our Pakistanis.
Pakistan Zindabad! TTP muradabad.
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Jun 10, 2014 02:46pm
The war on terrorism in Pakistan cannot be won by airstrikes alone but by coordinated ground operations, busting hideouts in cities and immaculate intelligence inputs to restrict their movements to major cities.
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Jun 10, 2014 02:50pm
The war on terrorism in Pakistan cannot be won by airstrikes alone but by coordinated ground operations, busting hideouts in cities and immaculate intelligence inputs to restrict their movements to major cities.
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Jun 10, 2014 03:51pm
@kashif
They don't count. They leave it up to PR dept.
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Jun 10, 2014 03:56pm
@Last Word
You are right. THis is all for public consumption. To fool the public. It's too expensive to kill few handful of militants.
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Jun 10, 2014 04:04pm
Pak Fauj Zindabad ,
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Jun 10, 2014 04:04pm
I am proud of my armed forces keep up the good work till they surrender. They have not seen your might yet show them and convince them so that no one in future dare to challenge you. God is with you you are on the right path.
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Jun 10, 2014 04:10pm
So the war has started. Pakistan Armed Forces will lose. Very unfortunate.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:09pm
Lets change the scenaio a little bit, instead of PAF its USAF which bombs and claim 15 dead, how many of those who has commented 'commending the job' will still say the same.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:19pm
25 dead criminals is good news, but please make it 250.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:47pm
@kashif They have assets on the ground to gather information.
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Jun 10, 2014 06:57pm
To All concerned authorities. Please by dialogue or by operation solve this issue as soon as possible. Up till now no consensus has been developed either of the options.
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Jun 10, 2014 07:56pm
@Taj wazir Like all my friends who are posting these comments, I would also congratulate our armed forces for doing such a good job. Please keep up your good work until they are all eradicated and killed.
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Jun 10, 2014 08:53pm
Just get the main high ranked personals and the banned party will be disappeared soon.
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Jun 10, 2014 11:04pm
Yeah Right. They were all carrying signs on their backs saying 'Taliban, come kill me"
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Jun 11, 2014 01:37am
keep doing till you are done with the last one.
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Jun 11, 2014 02:01am
They drop one bomb, kill a few terrorists, and then wait for another terrrorist attack before bombing them again.....what a joke
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Jun 11, 2014 05:34am
@Anuj Rahul Joshi Weren't most the lives these terrorists took and take in their attacks innocent. Death of innocent dear ones hurt...maybe its time they feel terrorized too.
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Jun 11, 2014 07:29am
This small single tit for tat is of completely no use. We have seen this game go on for years. TTP does something the army does not like, and airforce launches a single airstrike. This is useful. We need to do a sustained areal bombardment of Taliban, that will shake them to their core, and then launch an massive ground assault.
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Jun 11, 2014 08:23am
yes it should be continue uninterrupted. We should get concrete results at the end of the day.
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Jun 11, 2014 08:30am
Congratulations on what? Who were killed, any names - please?
The thing we don't understand is that as we become happy on killing them, very similarly they enjoy killing us. Two wrongs don't make a right. Why can't our 650000 Army go in, apprehend the culprits and then punish them in a court of law.
They just go in and bomb a place and say 25 killed, 60 killed etc. Don't tell me that these attacks are intel based and the greatness of our intelligence agencies. I mean a blind person can see their performance. These 25 might include women and children. The people whose family you kill and then leave comments like "kill the rats" - what do you expect from them when they get you?
Bombing poor people is not the solution, serving justice is the only solution.
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Jun 11, 2014 10:16am
@Ahmad Ali Rafi . Yeah, they are excellent killers of the enemy of their country, they kill those who kills their countrymen and will not spare anyone. We all must be thankful to them. We are highly indebted to them.
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Jun 11, 2014 10:23am
@Shoaib D.Kasuri . So these suspects would keep on making fun of your religion and country and you would keep on letting them loose just as Iftikhar Chaudhry did during his entire tenure, the result would be not much different to what we are facing now. In case you are an anarchist, we are not, and we want a safe and secure Pakistan for our children.
You are totally wrong when you call them suspects, they have been accepting the responsibility of each and every heinous crime and kill they have committed, and now they have found sympathisers like you in the social media. I feel sorry for the teachers who brought you up like that.
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Jun 11, 2014 10:29am
@Shoaib D.Kasuri . You will continue to live in a fool's paradise of a meaningful dialogue and they would keep on rebuilding and would continue to make headlines in your already polluted media. What they did in the past was their interest at that time. Now by all definitions of ethics, religion, morality and wisdom they are criminals and need to be punished the hardest way.
Collateral damage? To kill 10,000 security forces they have killed 40,000 innocent civilians in settled areas of Pakistan, this doesn't enthral you much? Is this not collateral damage? grow up.
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Jun 12, 2014 09:41am
@kashif Drones are used for surveillance of the areas after bombardment to confirm that the specific target was attacked accurately or weather more air strikes are needed. Sometimes ground forces also go in post-airstrikes to sweep the area
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