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Pakistan Army Launches Assault In Tribal Area

Pakistan Army Launches Assault In Tribal Area

Pakistan says it has launched a "comprehensive operation" against armed groups northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan, after killing dozens of fighters in air raids.

The military said on Sunday that operation was targeting "foreign and local terrorists" hiding in North Waziristan. The operation has been launched a week after fighters attacked Karachi international airport.

"Using North Waziristan as a base, these terrorists had waged a war against the state of Pakistan", the military said, adding the groups had "paralysed life within the agency and perpetually terrorised the entire peace loving and patriotic local population".

"Our valiant armed forces have been tasked to eliminate these terrorists regardless of hue and colour, along with their sanctuaries," it said.

The operation was announced hours after Pakistani jets bombed the territory, with the military saying more than 80 people, mostly Uzbek fighters, were believed killed.

"A number of terrorist hideouts in Degan, Datta Khel in NWA [North Waziristan Agency] were targeted by jets," it said.

"There were confirmed reports of presence of foreign and local terrorists in these hideouts who were linked to planning of the Karachi airport attack," it said, a reference to an attack earlier this month that killed 36 people.

Eight hideouts were targeted in the raids, the AP news agency quoted two intelligence officers as saying. The army said that an ammunition dump was also destroyed.

Abu Abdul Rehman al-Maani, the suspected planner of the Karachi attack, had been killed, the sources said.



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