KOHAT, Sept, 15 The security forces blew up six camps of Taliban after entering into Chappri Naryab area of Hangu district on Tuesday night.

The militants had re-entered the area after the last year's operation and had enforced their style of Sharia in several towns and villages near Orakzai Agency. They had destroyed a private health centre in Kurt area, located at the border between Hangu and Kurram Agency on Monday night.

The security forces targeted the hideouts of militants on Kurram-Hangu border after the incident. The security forces had been using air force and artillery against militants in the area for the last three years. According to Taliban sources 120 militants were eliminated in the air strikes during the last month.

An eyewitness, privy to the activities of the Taliban in the area, said that suicide bombers were trained there and then dispatched to Punjab in vehicles loaded with explosives via Kohat-Mianwali road.

On Sunday, Mianwali police started patrolling Indus River after banning all commercial boat service between southern parts of NWFP and Punjab following reports that terrorists had been using it.

ROCKET DEFUSED The bomb disposal squad defused on Tuesday a rocket and 17 hand grenades, hurled by militants at two different police stations in the city on Monday night.

Police said that they found 17 hand grenades near Cantt police station on Tuesday morning. Similarly a rocket fired by militants at City police station failed to explode and was later defused by the bomb disposal squad in the small hours of Tuesday. The hand grenades were also destroyed by the bomb disposal squad.

Meanwhile, officials of Cantt, City and Jungle Khel police stations arrested six suspected militants during search operations and recovered ammunition including hand grenades and pistols from their possession.

The arrested persons were identified as Usman, Qasim Khan, Tanveer, Gul Jamal and Roshan Khan. Two hand grenades, six pistols and 1,000 cartridges were recovered from their possession.

They were handed over to special investigation team for interrogation after registration of cases against them in the respective police stations.

HOUSE BLOWN UP Militants blew up the house of a tribal elder in the semi autonomous tribal area of district Kohat on Monday night.

Official sources said that militants had planted several bombs around the boundary wall of the house of Saeed Khan Afridi. The bombs exploded after midnight. Three rooms of the house were damaged in the blasts but the inmates remained safe miraculously.

Sources said that militants destroyed the house of tribal elder for helping the administration.