Action on Miscreant Hideouts in NW Pakistan
'Pakistan Times' Wire Service

ISLAMABAD: Security forces Tuesday carried out an operation against miscreants and targeted their hideouts in Miranshah, North Waziristan Agency in NW Pakistan.

Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Waheed Arshad said the said that the operation was launched on 05:00 this morning, in which cobra gun ship helicopters and artillery were used.

There was information that miscreants, taking refuge in two to three houses in Miranshah were operating from there and attacking on check posts and convoys of the security forces, Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad added.

Meanwhile, another report says that the assault by artillery and helicopter gunships knocked out two compounds in Daygan village in the tribal belt that were being used as staging posts for attacks on security forces.

Ten militants were killed and at least seven were wounded in the operation, about 10 miles west of Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan region.

No ground troops were used in the operation, and the report on militant casualties was based on information from 'local sources,' said the report.

Bid in Swat Foiled

Meanwhile, a report from Swat says that a bomb disposal squad thwarted an attempt of destroying FC fort here on Tuesday.

According to sources, unknown persons had planted 15-kilogram bomb in a bucket of FC Fort in Bagh Dhari area.

Bomb disposal squad immediately reached at the scene soon after receiving the report and defused the bomb.

DPO Swat Muhammad Iqbal Khan announced cash reward and appreciation certificates for bomb disposal squad experts for their swift action.●