Air strikes on LI bases leave 13 dead
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LANDI KOTAL: Thirteen suspected militants were killed in air strikes on their hideouts in Bara on Saturday and in apparent retaliatory gun attacks two soldiers lost their lives.
Officials said that helicopter gunships and military planes targeted the banned Lashkar-i-Islam group’s bases in Nala-Malikdin Khel, Akkakhel and Sipah areas, leaving 13 suspected militants dead and eight injured.
Five hideouts were destroyed.
Independent sources said that five soldiers suffered injuries in gun-battles in different parts of Bara. Three were identified as Hawaldar Mushtaq, Naib Subedar Imran and Naik Usman.
Meanwhile, two soldiers were shot dead in different incidents in Bara and Tirah.
Published in Dawn, November 2nd , 2014
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Nov 02, 2014 08:39am
Hunt these terrorists down one by one and finish them off and May Allah give the martyred soliders the highest place in paradise.
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Nov 02, 2014 11:40am
Excellent. Send deep cover special teams inside Afghanistan to take out Mullah Fazlullah.
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Nov 02, 2014 11:41am
It appears that the supply of Militants to Pakistan is unending.How did these Rakshasas were created?Who nurtured them and who trained them ?Any answers ?
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Nov 02, 2014 01:06pm
Pakistani army and air force must go for an all out strategy and try to finish there Indian supported TTP and BLA within a time frame - especially when India is violating peace on LOC and is testing our air defence violating the 30 km no fly zone to our borders.
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Nov 02, 2014 03:10pm
@Sammy They can hunt them down, all of them, if they don't go for 'Good' guys & 'BAD' guys again. These are all bad guys. army should get rid of this plague. Common man has suffered a lot
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Nov 02, 2014 05:06pm
Use military as much as you can, using airforce is wrong, India never used airforce on Kashmiri terrorists.
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Nov 02, 2014 09:40pm
@CHANAKYA Ever heard about Hasan bin Sabah, a 11th Century AD father of horror?
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