5 Pakistanis Killed by US Missile, 66 Killed by Pakistani Army Air Strikes, June 21, 2010

5 Pakistanis Killed by US Missile, 66 Killed by Pakistani Army Air Strikes

June 21, 2010

U.S. missile strike kills 6 militants in Pakistan

Reuters, June 29, 2010

A U.S. drone fired two missiles into Pakistan's northwestern South Waziristan region on Tuesday, killing six insurgents, including a foreigner, Pakistani intelligence officials and residents said.

The missiles struck a sprawling compound near Wana, the main town of the region. It was being used by a group of "Punjabi Taliban," a term used for Pakistani militants drawn from the central province of Punjab, intelligence officials said.

"Six militants have been killed. An al Qaeda man of foreign origin is also believed to have been killed," an intelligence official told Reuters. "The death toll may rise."

The nationality of the foreigner could not be immediately determined.

The United States has stepped up missile strikes by pilotless drones in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt since a Jordanian suicide bomber killed seven CIA employees at a U.S. base in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province in December.

But most of this year's strikes have been in North Waziristan, next door.

The Pakistan army launched a major offensive against homegrown militants in South Waziristan in mid-October, killing hundreds of insurgents and destroying many of their bases. Authorities in recent days have stepped up efforts to encourage tribesmen displaced by fighting to return to their homes.

But despite losing ground, militants have shown the ability to bounce back and have carried out a wave of bomb and suicide attacks, killing hundreds of civilians and security personnel, mostly in the northwest.

(Reporting by Hafiz Wazir and Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Chris Allbritton and Sanjeev Miglani)

(For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan)

4 soldiers, 66 Taliban killed in Orakzai, Bajaur

The Daily Times, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 29, 2010

* 40 under-treatment Taliban killed as jets bomb Taliban-run hospital in Orakzai

HANGU:

At least 66 Taliban were killed and another 30 injured in airstrikes and clashes with the security forces across the country’ northwest on Sunday, security sources said.

In Orakzai Agency, the forces said they killed at least 63 Taliban in the last 24 hours.

The sources said around 15 Taliban were killed and another six injured in a clash with the forces in the agency’s Dabori area.

Three soldiers were critically injured in the clash.

Separately, eight Taliban were killed and another 24 injured in a clash with the security forces in the Bakar Ghari area of Upper Orakzai.

Also, the sources added that fighter jets attacked a Taliban-run makeshift hospital in Upper Orakzai late on Sunday, killing 40 Taliban under treatment at the facility.

Meanwhile, in Khar, four soldiers were killed when the Taliban ambushed an army patrol in Bajaur Agency, officials told AFP.

The terrorists attacked the troops during a patrol in the border town of Kharaki, 25 kilometres north of Khar.

“Four soldiers were killed in the attack”, which in turn triggered retaliation from the soldiers in which three terrorists were killed, he said. abdul saboor khan/afp

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