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The Pakistan army today launched an all-out offensive using jets and tanks in the restive North Waziristan, killing nearly 184 Taliban fighters including foreigners, while six soldiers were killed in an IED blast, the first military casualties in the operation.
“Air force jets targeted six hideouts of the militants in Shawal area. In these precise strikes 27 terrorists were killed. There is no civil population in the area,” military spokesman Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa said.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the terror attack on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi.
“We carried out this attack on the Karachi airport and it is a message to the Pakistani government that we are still alive to react over the killings of innocent people in bomb attacks on their villages,” TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement to the media.
A series of battles took place this week between Kachin Independence Army (KIA) troops and a combined force of Burmese Army and Pyi Tu Tsits (local militia groups backed by Burmese Army).
Kachin people militia (MHH) troops under the 5th section of the KIA’s 36th Battalion on Wednesday fought against Burmese army’s 323rd Light Infantry Regiment (LIR) troops at Nam Ba Tek, Pang Sai Township in northern Shan State. The battle took place at about 2:10 pm as about 50 government troops who had travelled from Hpai Kawng village to Pang Sai City encountered Kachin people militia (MHH) troops at Nam Ba Tek.
At least 16 militants were killed on Saturday as the security forces backed by gunship helicopters thwarted a cross border militant attack on a checkpost near the Pak-Afghan border in the Bajaur tribal region.
Military officials said that a large number of militants from across the border attacked a Pakistani post situated on Nao Top early in the morning.
Spokesperson for Mehsud Taliban group, Azam Tariq, has announced that his group is severing ties with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) this Wednesday May 28, 2014. Azam claimed that individual ideologies had created a rift among various Taliban groups and there was a deviation from the real cause.
Azam Tariq accused the existing Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leadership was involved in attacking public places with bombs using bogus names. He claimed that money was being extorted from madrassahs and other institutions which was not acceptable.