Pakistan Bombs Taliban, Pakistani jets dead 16 doubtable militants in bombing raids abreast the Afghan bound on Saturday, and badge arrested dozens of people, aegis admiral said, the day afterwards Taliban militants dead 29 humans in an advance on an air base.
The advance on the abject on Friday was the deadliest anytime active advance on a Pakistani aggressive accession and is acceptable to attenuate already bouldered ties with Afghanistan.
Hours afterwards the attack, Pakistan's aggressive agent advisedly acclaimed that communications intercepts showed the Pakistani Taliban gunmen were getting directed by handlers in Afghanistan.
Saturday's air force raids targeted active bases in the Tirah Valley, which straddles the Afghan bound and is a basic smuggling avenue amid the two countries, two Pakistani aegis admiral said.
"All those dead in the bombing were Pakistani militants," said one aegis official in the northwestern city-limits of Peshawar.
On Friday, 13 gunmen stormed the Badaber air base, about 10 km (6 miles) south of Peshawar in an advance a Pakistani Taliban agent said was backfire for bombing raids on their bases forth the Afghan border.
Police said they best up about 50 association active abreast the abject on suspicion of allowance the militants adapt the attack.
Shafqat Malik, arch of the Peshawar bomb squad, said the attackers agitated abundant firepower to absorb the base, but that some of their weapons had malfunctioned. Each man had an advance rifle, two improvised atomic devices, and several rocket propelled grenades, but some of the grenades misfired, he said.
"Their mission was activity of the air base," he said.
For decades Pakistan accomplished Islamist militants as allies adjoin old battling India, and to action Soviet armament in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
But it has been angry some active factions back afterwards it sided with the United States afterward the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on U.S. cities.
Pakistan launched an abhorrent to dislodge Pakistani Taliban from their northwestern bastion of North Waziristan in 2014 and there has been angry in assorted places, including the Tirah Valley, back then.
For years Pakistan and Afghanistan accept traded accusations of not accomplishing abundant to brand out insurgents on either ancillary of their long, absorptive border.
Each country has a abstracted but affiliated Taliban affront angry to abolish the government and install austere Islamist aphorism and aegis cooperation is apparent as basic to defeat militancy.
Last month, Afghanistan abhorrent Pakistan for not accomplishing abundant to adverse militants who agitated out a alternation of attacks in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The advance on the abject on Friday was the deadliest anytime active advance on a Pakistani aggressive accession and is acceptable to attenuate already bouldered ties with Afghanistan.
Hours afterwards the attack, Pakistan's aggressive agent advisedly acclaimed that communications intercepts showed the Pakistani Taliban gunmen were getting directed by handlers in Afghanistan.
Saturday's air force raids targeted active bases in the Tirah Valley, which straddles the Afghan bound and is a basic smuggling avenue amid the two countries, two Pakistani aegis admiral said.
"All those dead in the bombing were Pakistani militants," said one aegis official in the northwestern city-limits of Peshawar.
On Friday, 13 gunmen stormed the Badaber air base, about 10 km (6 miles) south of Peshawar in an advance a Pakistani Taliban agent said was backfire for bombing raids on their bases forth the Afghan border.
Police said they best up about 50 association active abreast the abject on suspicion of allowance the militants adapt the attack.
Shafqat Malik, arch of the Peshawar bomb squad, said the attackers agitated abundant firepower to absorb the base, but that some of their weapons had malfunctioned. Each man had an advance rifle, two improvised atomic devices, and several rocket propelled grenades, but some of the grenades misfired, he said.
"Their mission was activity of the air base," he said.
For decades Pakistan accomplished Islamist militants as allies adjoin old battling India, and to action Soviet armament in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
But it has been angry some active factions back afterwards it sided with the United States afterward the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on U.S. cities.
Pakistan launched an abhorrent to dislodge Pakistani Taliban from their northwestern bastion of North Waziristan in 2014 and there has been angry in assorted places, including the Tirah Valley, back then.
For years Pakistan and Afghanistan accept traded accusations of not accomplishing abundant to brand out insurgents on either ancillary of their long, absorptive border.
Each country has a abstracted but affiliated Taliban affront angry to abolish the government and install austere Islamist aphorism and aegis cooperation is apparent as basic to defeat militancy.
Last month, Afghanistan abhorrent Pakistan for not accomplishing abundant to adverse militants who agitated out a alternation of attacks in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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