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Pakistan forces bomb Taliban in South Waziristan
Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:44am EDT
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani aircraft attacked Taliban in the South Waziristan region on Sunday a day after the army said it had captured a strategic town on an approach to main militant base area.
Separately, gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead the minister of education in the provincial government in Baluchistan, a gas-rich southwestern province where separatist rebels have been waging a low-level insurgency for decades.
The army assault in the ethnic Pashtun tribal region of South Waziristan on the Afghan border is seen as a test of the government's determination to tackle Islamists responsible for a string of attacks against government and other targets.
The United States and other powers embroiled in neighboring Afghanistan's growing conflict want Pakistan to eliminate militant sanctuaries in its lawless northwest.
The latest bombardment in the week-old offensive was against militant bases in the three villages of Sam, Badr and Ladha, government and security officials said.
"It was intense bombing and later helicopter gunships attacked," said an intelligence agency official who declined to be identified.
Several militant hideouts had been destroyed in the bombing, said a government official, adding he had no information about casualties. Military spokesman were not available for comment.
South Waziristan, a rugged land of rocky mountains and patchy forest, is a global hub of Islamist militancy. Foreign fighters including Uzbeks and Arab al Qaeda supporters are fighting alongside the Taliban.
Soldiers are advancing on the militants' main stronghold area from three directions.
HEAVY CLASH
Forces moving in from the southeast had taken control of Kotkai town, the birthplace of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud and the home town of Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior commander known as "the mentor of suicide bombers," the army said on Saturday.
The small town is a gateway to important militant strongholds and intelligence officials in the region said government forces killed at least 15 militants in a heavy clash as they pushed beyond Kotkai.
Reporters do not have access to the area.
About 150,000 people have fled their homes in South Waziristan but aid officials do not expect the exodus to become a humanitarian crisis, as did a similar offensive in the Swat valley this year.
In Baluchistan, there was no claim of responsibility for the killing of provincial education minister Shafiq Ahmed Khan, who was shot near his home in the provincial capital, Quetta. Continued...
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