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In its first major military offensive, Pakistan’s newly elected government deployed 700 frontier corps troops late last week, to combat armed fighters of the Lashkar e-Islam group in the Northwest Frontier Province.
According to Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, Maj-Gen Mohammad Alam Khattak of the Frontier Corps, said that “one militant had been killed and a private jail and three other buildings demolished." (Written story continues below) The general added that Pakistani “forces had occupied all heights and clamped a curfew on the region.” The capital of the Northwest Frontier Province, Peshawar, has been the site of repeated attacks by Lashkar e-Islam, a group affiliated with the Taliban. TheRealNews.com is an independent news network that produces stories of global interest. To comment at Consortiumblog, click here. (To make a blog comment about this or other stories, you can use your normal e-mail address and password. Ignore the prompt for a Google account.) To comment to us by e-mail, click here. To donate so we can continue publishing stories like the one you just read, click here. |
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