Security forces targeted suspected hideouts of Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) affiliated insurgents, killing 11 miscreants and inflicting injuries on 19 others in Mamozai area of Upper Orakzai Agency, official sources said on Friday.
Official sources said that the security forces shelled hideouts of the militants with heavy artillery, destroying three hideouts of the insurgents besides killing 11 and injuring 19.
However, the reports of killing and injuries were not independently confirmed rather media has to rely on official sources because tribal areas bordering Afghanistan was not accessible to media.
“Most of the territory of the rugged region has been cleared by the security forces by killing insurgents and pushing the alive to flee,” official sources claimed.
Meanwhile, military operation against the insurgents was underway in Upper Orakzai. Security forces high ups were saying that complete elimination of the insurgents from the bordering region will take time, however, claiming that military operations have broken the back of the insurgents and they were no more in position to launch any major terror attack.
