LANDI KOTAL: Twelve suspected militants were killed in air strikes in Khyber Agency’s Tirah valley on Sunday.
Official sources said the air strikes were conducted in Rajgal valley, a forested area in the Kukikhel tribal region, near the border with Afghanistan.
They said the air strikes were ordered after a tip-off about the presence of militants in hideouts under the thick forest of Rajgal.
Fighter planes of the Pakistan Air Force destroyed at least three hideouts, the sources added.
Two banned militant organisations, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and Lashkar-i-Islam, established their hideouts and training camps in Rajgal and adjoining mountainous regions bordering Afghanistan after they were driven out from Bara.
Published in Dawn, December 5th, 2016
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