The Pakistani military had destroyed at least 52 militants of the Taliban, transmits AFP referring to the armed forces of the country. The operation was carried out in the north-west Pakistan in the tribal areas Kieber (Khyber) near the Afghan border on Friday, February 6. Reported that during the attack was an ammunition dump and destroyed eight military vehicles.
The military stressed that the area of attack, which is located at the intersection of the borders of Kibera and Kurama (Kurram), is an important point of concentration of forces of NATO and American military bases. Soldiers of Pakistan conducted both ground and air attack. Most of the militants was destroyed from the air, from eight to ten people were killed when soldiers blocked the Taliban during the ground operation.
Earlier on Friday suicide bomber detonated minefield car at a checkpoint in the border town of Jamri (Jamrud), wounding six people. The representative of the Taliban, who has assumed responsibility for the attack, said that NATO will destroy munitions, if the Pakistani government did not halt military operations against militants.
In the north-west Pakistan militants hiding a terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and members of the Taliban. To destroy the extremists, Pakistan has stepped up attacks on the border with Afghanistan.
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