Middle East Times
July 22, 2007
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan -- Pakistani troops killed 19 militants in clashes near the Afghan border, officials said Sunday, a day after the US president fully backed Islamabad's efforts to combat extremism.
Six rebels died in a gunbattle Sunday after they ambushed a troop convoy with a roadside bomb in the tribal agency of North Waziristan, where fighting continued with helicopter gunships, the army said.
Troops also killed 13 pro-Taliban fighters in overnight clashes after the rebels attacked several military checkpoints in the lawless region, where authorities were simultaneously trying to revive a 10-month-old peace deal.
Fighting in the rugged border lands has intensified amid a wave of Islamist bloodshed that has killed more than 200 people nationwide, sparked by the army's storming of the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad earlier this month.
US President George W. Bush in his weekly radio address Saturday linked the US global campaign against Al Qaeda to Pakistan's efforts to quell Islamist violence, including the deadly storming of the pro-Taliban mosque. Read More
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan -- Pakistani troops killed 19 militants in clashes near the Afghan border, officials said Sunday, a day after the US president fully backed Islamabad's efforts to combat extremism.
Six rebels died in a gunbattle Sunday after they ambushed a troop convoy with a roadside bomb in the tribal agency of North Waziristan, where fighting continued with helicopter gunships, the army said.
Troops also killed 13 pro-Taliban fighters in overnight clashes after the rebels attacked several military checkpoints in the lawless region, where authorities were simultaneously trying to revive a 10-month-old peace deal.
Fighting in the rugged border lands has intensified amid a wave of Islamist bloodshed that has killed more than 200 people nationwide, sparked by the army's storming of the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad earlier this month.
US President George W. Bush in his weekly radio address Saturday linked the US global campaign against Al Qaeda to Pakistan's efforts to quell Islamist violence, including the deadly storming of the pro-Taliban mosque. Read More
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