LANDI KOTAL:
The Commandant of the Khyber Rifles Colonel Tariq Hafeez has said that Khyber-Two military operation against Taliban and other terrorist groups hiding in different parts of the Tirah valley would begin next month.
Speaking to journalists at an army camp here on Tuesday, he pledged that security forces would now reclaim all areas at present under the control of several out-lawed militant groups in Khyber Agency and Fata.
“We will not spare anyone and will go after them no matter where they are hiding and will smash their operational structure to reduce their striking capability,” he said.
He added that security forces were now determined to annihilate all anti-state elements operating on Pakistan’s soil.
Referring to escape of some leaders of Bara-based outlawed groups to Afghanistan, he said that those who were not sincere to their own motherland could not be sincere to anyone.
