| 11 Pak army troops martyred in Miranshah attack
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MIRANSHAH:
After two more bodies were recovered from Miranshah, the toll of
martyred Pak army troops rose to eleven on Monday, Geo News reported.
Earlier,
ISPR told that nine Pak army troops were martyred while scores of
militants were killed in an clash following an army convoy came under
attack in the country's troubled northwest on Sunday, a day after a US
drone strike killed 10 insurgents.
The attack triggered a gun
battle that raged for more than two hours near Miranshah, the main town
in the notorious militant stronghold of North Waziristan.
Security officials confirmed the clash while witnesses said helicopters were seen circling overhead.
The
convoy came under attack from about a dozen militants armed with
rockets and automatic rifles, officials said, and followed a US drone
strike on a militant compound in North Waziristan on Saturday in which
at least 10 insurgents were killed.
Waziristan lies in
northwestern Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt which Washington
considers the main hub for Taliban and Al-Qaeda to plot attacks on the
West and in Afghanistan.
Pakistan says the drone strikes are
counter productive and undermine government efforts to separate tribes
from militants, violate Pakistan's sovereignty, kill civilians and fuel
anti-US sentiment. (AFP) |
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