At least 21 terrorists were killed on Saturday killed in shelling by fighter planes in Orakzai and Kurram Agencies. According to sources, at least seven hideouts of the terrorists were also destroyed. The security forces claimed to have cleared almost 92 percent of the area of militants. However, they said that there were still some pockets of resistance in upper Orakzai Agency. Intelligence sources said that the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants were launching joint attacks on the Ansar-ul-Islam (AI) fighters.
