{"id":3433,"date":"2014-02-25T07:29:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T07:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2014-02-25T07:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T07:29:15","slug":"pakistan-airstrikes-hit-tribal-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/02\/25\/3433\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan airstrikes hit tribal areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/pk-jet-bombar.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>The Pakistani military claims to have killed dozens of Taliban fighters in the northern tribal areas overnight, as it continued to bomb the group&#8217;s hideouts after the failure of peace talks last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A security official told AFP news agency on Tuesday that at least 15 fighters had been killed in a fresh series of strikes and that this death toll may increase, with fighter jets and helicopter gunships targeting sites in north and south Waziristan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another military official, speaking to Reuters news agency on condition of anonymity, said that fifteen fighters were killed on the South Waziristan side of the border, while 12 were killed in North Waziristan. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The militants had captured a stretch between South Waziristan and North Waziristan and had established training<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">centres where they were also preparing suicide bombers,&#8221; the official told Reuters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is no information on how many civilians have been killed, nor is there independent verification that the people killed were Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The attacks happened less than 24 hours after a senior TTP leader, Asmatullah Shaheen, was killed in a roadside shooting in North Waziristan. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earlier this month, the Pakistani government began negotiations with the TTP aimed at ending years of violent attacks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But the armed group continued with its campaign of suicide bombings, with talks finally being suspended when a TTP faction claimed it had executed 23 kidnapped soldiers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since then the Pakistani Air Force has intensified its airstrikes in the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, considered a stronghold of the TTP and other armed groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>Aljazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistani military claims to have killed dozens of Taliban fighters in the northern tribal areas overnight, as it continued to bomb the group&#8217;s hideouts after the failure of peace talks last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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