25 killed in Tirah air strike

E-Paper | March 17, 2026

LANDI KOTAL: At least 25 suspected militants were killed and 15 injured when military planes bombed their hideouts in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency early on Tuesday, Inter-Services Public Relations said,

It further said that Pakistan Air Force planes targeted the hideouts in Wacha Wana, Mehraban Killay, Dwa Thoe, Rakgall and Tangu areas.

The ISPR claimed that nine militant bases and hideouts had been destroyed in the targeted localities.

The ISPR claim could not be verified independently. The bombing was in retaliation to Sunday’s deadly attack on the Karachi airport carried out by the Tehreek-i-Taliban.

A Jamrud-based resident of Tangu village told Dawn that at least six non-combatants, including women and children, were among the dead.

Sources who did not want to be identified said a bomb struck the house of one Sameed Sherkhan Khel in Tangu at around 1.30am, killing his wife, two sons, two daughters and a niece and leaving three members of the family critically injured.

Published in Dawn, June 11th, 2014

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Jun 11, 2014 01:51pm

Two attacks took place in Karachi but retaliatory attacks were conducted at Tirah which is quite strange. The intelligence agencies role is most important to locate the terrorists and sleeper cells hide-out places in Karachi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Peshawar and even Lahore where large number of them have taken refuge and all these places need to be raided without any further delay. So many attacks taking place is a clear indicator of total intelligence failure or terrorists being protected by some rogue elements within the state machinery.

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