ISLAMABAD (PAN): Seventeen Taliban fighters have been killed in two separate incidents of violence in northwest Pakistan, government officials said on Monday.Eight insurgents were killed Sunday night during a security operation in the Terah valley of lawless tribal region, Khyber, near the Afghanistan border, an official in the political agent office told Pajhwok Afghan News.
The official who spoke on condition of anonymity added the operation came after 21 kidnapped paramilitary soldiers were executed by the rebels on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the BBC quoted local officials in North Waziristan as saying that unidentified gunmen killed nine fighters of Tahreek-i-Taliban Pakistan after their abduction in the North Waziristan.
The bodies were found dumped on a mountainous site, 15 kilometres from Miranshah, the main town in the volatile north.
from Pajhwok
By Qaisar Yosufzai Dec 31, 2012 - 19:34
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