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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 08 PESHAWAR 000138 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL:  6/17/2019 
TAGS: PTER MOPS PGOV PK
SUBJECT: FATA AND NWFP:  WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 5 - 
JUNE 11 
 
REF: A) PESHAWAR 128; B) PESHAWAR 127; C) PESHAWAR 126; D) ISLAMABAD 1272; E)PESHAWAR 125; F) PESHAWAR 124 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: Lynne Tracy, Principal Officer, U.S. Consulate 
Peshawar, Department of State. 
REASON: 1.4 (d) 
Introduction 
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(C) The government continued low-intensity fighting during the 
first full week in June with pockets of militants in Swat, 
Buner, Shangla, and Lower Dir.  The latter showed that they pose 
a continued threat by destroying schools in Lower Dir and Buner, 
and resuming kidnappings of civilians in Swat.  In Frontier 
Region Bannu, adjacent to North Waziristan, the military has 
begun operations against militants affiliated with Baitullah 
Mehsud's Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).  The response from 
militants to the government campaign continued apace, however, 
as the TTP killed more than a dozen and wounded scores of people 
in a high-profile vehicle-borne suicide attack (refs C, E) at 
the Pearl Continental (PC) Hotel in Peshawar on June 9.  TTP and 
other militants also launched several smaller-scale attacks in 
Peshawar and Darra Adam Khel (ref B). 
 
 
¶2.      (SBU) International organizations suspended their 
activities in Peshawar after the bombing of the PC Hotel on June 
¶9.  The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 
the World Food Program (WFP), and several other international 
bodies temporarily halted their activities by directing workers 
to restrict their movements (ref D).  The WFP said it would 
continue serving the needs of IDPs in Malakand Division.  Slow 
commerce and a bleak mood continued in Peshawar. 
 
¶3.      (C) In Dir, two noteworthy developments occurred over the 
reporting period.  A suicide bombing in Upper Dir spurred the 
formation of a lashkar to fight militants there, who were routed 
in the ensuing campaign (ref F).  In Lower Dir, imprisoned 
leaders of Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammedi (TNSM) died 
during an apparent attempt to free them from the military forces 
moving them to Peshawar (ref A). 
 
¶4.      (U) Militants have killed over 600 Pakistani soldiers in 
the last year, according to the Army's lead spokesman.  Athar 
Abbas said on June 11 that 1,700 Pakistani soldiers have died 
since September 11, 2001. 
 
NWFP - Malakand Division 
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¶5. (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Malakand 
Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), where the 
Pakistani government has been conducting combat operations since 
the last week of April.  Malakand Division includes the 
districts of Malakand, Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Chitral, Swat, 
Shangla, and Buner. 
 
June 5, Upper Dir:  Militants launched a high-profile suicide 
bombing at a mosque during Juma (Friday) prayers, killing 42, 
including 12 children.  70 others were injured.   Local elders 
prominent in anti-Taliban activity attended the mosque. 
 
June 5, Lower Dir:  Security forces blew up six houses of 
alleged militant commanders in Adenzai and Maidan tehsils. 
 
June 5, Swat:  Militants killed one soldier near Mingora.  The 
military claimed to kill 10 militants, while recovering 35 IEDs, 
two FM transmitters, 500 detonators, three long range antennas 
and a large number of pistols and rifles from a militant 
compound.  Civilians streamed out of their homes following 
evacuation orders from the military.  Military helicopters 
dropped leaflets overnight to announce the government would ease 
curfew restrictions. 
 
June 5, Shangla:  Security forces backed by artillery cleared 
several areas, claiming to have killed six militants in the 
process.  Four farmers harvesting wheat crops in the field were 
also killed by mortars. 
 
June 5, Buner:  After militants killed an Army captain with a 
remote controlled bomb, security forces advanced west from 
 
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Jowkhel base camp to Char village, heading toward Salarzai, 
performing search operations. 
 
June 6, Swat:  Militants killed four soldiers.  Security forces 
claimed to secure the Sarsanai area and kill 17 militants. 
 
June 6, Lower Dir:  The Taliban attacked a security forces 
convoy, killing Tehrik Nifaz-i-Sharia-i-Muhammad (TNSM) deputy 
leader Maulana Alam and spokesman Amir Izaat while they were 
being transported to Peshawar.  Elsewhere, locals killed four 
Taliban after hundreds of tribesmen formed a lashkar and 
attacked their homes.  The military secured the road between 
Chakdara and Gora Gat. 
 
June 6, Shangla:  Security forces continued operations in Puran 
and Chakesar areas. 
 
June 7, Swat:  Militants in the Kanju area of central Swat 
kidnapped two brothers and a nephew of Dr. Shamsher Ali, an 
ANP-affiliated member of the NWFP Assembly; the nephew and a 
police official were killed.  Militants killed three security 
forces personnel, including an officer, and injured seven 
others, while four militants were also killed during the ongoing 
operation.  The military consolidated their positions and 
established checkposts in Bara Bandai, Koza Bandai and Ningulai 
areas, according to ISPR.  A junior officer, previously captured 
by militants in late April, escaped captivity. 
 
June 7, Upper Dir:  Armed villagers of Hayagay Sharqi, backed by 
people from dozens of other villages, besieged militants from 
all sides.  The laskhar claimed to have killed 11 taliban, 
including two commanders. 
 
June 7, Lower Dir:  Militants set on fire seven government 
schools in Gal, Mulano Banda, Shahi Kot, Miramai, Atto, Mualan 
Banda and Taran areas of Maidan.  Elsewhere, mortar shells hit a 
group of people fleeing the fighting from neighboring Swat 
valley in the Gulibagh area, killing five civilians, including 
two women and a child. 
 
June 7, Shangla:  Security forces claimed to secure various 
areas, including Aloch, Puran tehsil headquarters, along with 
the Alpuri-Puran road, as they advanced toward the border of 
Buner.  A mortar shell fell on a house in Tawa, killing three. 
 
June 8, Swat:  Militants killed one soldier in Kalpani and 
injured six in Peochar.  Security forces claimed to kill 14 
militants and arrest 22 others. 
 
June 8, Upper Dir:  Armed villagers, supported by Pakistani 
military, killed seven militants, while two Laskar men were 
injured, one of them seriously, during clashes in Doog Darra 
area.  Locals said the encircled militants started to resist by 
using heavy weapons against the Lashkar. 
 
June 8, Buner:  Militants destroyed a government college, a 
government high school, and two bridges in northwestern Buner, 
where fighting between the Frontier Corps and militants 
continued as the FC advanced toward Jure.  Separately, the 
Pakistani military claimed to have killed several high-ranking 
militants in an encounter near Ambela in southern Buner. 
 
June 9, Swat:  Security forces claimed to kill 14 more militants 
during a search operation in Peochar area.  Government troops 
also destroyed Maulana Fazlullah's headquarters in Imam Dheri, 
near River Swat, the reputed center of militancy in the valley. 
 
June 9, Lower Dir:  Militants blew up two girls' schools in 
Maidan. 
 
June 9, Upper Dir:  An anti-Taliban tribal laskhar secured four 
villages and claimed to have killed 13 militants.  Helicopter 
gunships pounded militant hideouts in Doog Darra to support the 
lashkar, which engaged the militants in Shatkas and Ghazigay 
villages, facing stiff resistance. 
 
 
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June 10, Swat:  Militants killed two soldiers and wounded 12 
others, including two officers.  The Inter-Services Public 
Relations (ISPR) claimed that over a dozen terrorists had been 
killed in the day's fighting. 
 
June 10, Lower Dir:  Security forces claimed to kill five 
militants in Maidan.  Security officials asked locals not to 
grow maize (corn) crops this year because militants could hide 
in the growth. 
 
June 10, Upper Dir:  The armed villagers fighting the Taliban in 
remote Doog Darra area made advances into Shatkas village after 
using heavy weapons, destroying several bunkers and killing two 
more militants. 
 
June 10, Shangla:  Waliuallah, a reputed "hard core" militant 
commander, surrendered to the Pakistan Army. 
 
June 11, Swat:  Militants wounded three soldiers in Matta and 
one in Peochar.  Security forces claimed to kill 10 and arrest 
six.  Security forces closed borders to Lower Dir, Upper Dir and 
Chitral to close off militant escape routes. 
 
June 11, Lower Dir:  Security forces claimed to kill five 
militants in a fight in the Kambar area.  Security forces also 
foiled an attempt to blow up a bridge on the main 
Mingora-Peshawar road, near Amandara, while killing a suspected 
militant. 
 
June 11, Upper Dir:  The lashkar from Patrak captured four 
members of a militant group.  Two children were killed in 
fighting between a lashkar of villagers and militants.  The 
Pakistan Air Force warplanes fired missiles on suspected 
hideouts of militants in Shatkas area of Doog Darra. 
 
NWFP - Hazara Division 
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¶5.      (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Hazara 
Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) according to 
press and consulate contacts.  Hazara Division includes the 
districts of Kohistan, Mansehra, Battagram, Abbottabad, and 
Haripur. 
 
June 6, Mansehra:  Militants blew up a CD shop in Oghi, which 
also damaged nearby shops.  In response, police banned 
exhibition of films in CD and video shops in order to deprive 
militants of a pretext to attack such shops in the future. 
 
June 8, Battagram:  Explosives planted next to a police post in 
the Changal area reportedly were detonated; however, no 
casualties were reported. 
 
June 9, Kohistan:  A prominent supporter of the banned 
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and an important leader of 
Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) Maulana Waliullah 
Kabalgrami, surrendered to security forces in Thakot area. 
 
NWFP - Mardan Division 
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(SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Mardan 
Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) according to 
press and consulate contacts.  Mardan Division includes the 
districts of Mardan and Swabi. 
 
June 5, Mardan:  Law enforcement agencies launched a search 
operation in the Rustam area after militants involved in the 
June 4 ambush that killed seven police and Frontier Corps and 
wounded many others. 
 
June 6, Mardan:  Security forces claimed to have arrested at 
least 60 terrorists hiding among IDPs in various camps over an 
unspecified period of time. 
 
June 7, Mardan:  Security forces killed two people who had 
 
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violated curfew and injured a third.  Police also arrested six 
militants. 
 
NWFP - Peshawar Division 
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¶8. (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Peshawar 
Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) according to 
press and consulate contacts.  Peshawar Division includes the 
districts of Peshawar, Nowshera, and Charsadda. 
 
June 5, Peshawar:  Pakistani press reported the arrest of 
Anwarul Haq Mujahid, reputed Taliban commander for Nangarhar 
province and son of deceased Afghan Hizb-i-Islami (Khalis) 
leader Yunus Khalis, along with three companions.  Press also 
reported that law enforcement agencies arrested Dr. Mohammed 
Ismail, who they claimed was a commander in a militant network 
with links to al-Qaida, and two of his colleagues.  The police 
claimed to have arrested a total of 30 suspected militants 
during checks at various entry and exit points to the city over 
an unspecified period of time. 
 
June 6, Peshawar:  NWFP government officials debated how to 
handle its estimate that only half of IDP families qualified for 
aid.  The government said it had "no mechanism" to distinguish 
between the needy and the imposters. 
 
June 7, Nowshera:  Police claimed to arrest 37 suspects and 
seized arms in different parts of the district. 
 
June 7, Peshawar:  Among rumors of potential suicide bombings, 
police tightened security in the capitol by setting up special 
checkpoints, thoroughly searching vehicles, banning tinted glass 
on cars, deploying on rooftops, placing barbed wire and 
barricades outside government buildings, and establishing a one 
kilometer "red zone" around police stations and police posts. 
 
June 8, Peshawar:  Militants killed four persons, including a 
former MNA from Mohmand, in two separate incidents at Faqirabad 
on Kohat Road.  Police arrested Tehrik Nifaz-i-Sharia-i-Muhammad 
(TNSM) Swat chapter chief, Iqbal Khan, and another associate, in 
Hayatabad.  The FATA Secretariat in Peshawar banned all public 
entry into its Peshawar administrative offices.  Also,  a 
policeman was killed and a passerby injured when an apparent 
remote-controlled bomb destroyed a police van. 
 
June 8, Nowshera:  Police defused a 10 kg home-made bomb planted 
along a roadside in the cantonment area. 
 
June 9, Peshawar:  Militants staged a high-profile suicide 
attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel by driving a lead vehicle 
(sedan) followed by a small truck through the guard post without 
challenge or screening, then detonating a bomb that killed nine 
(refs A, B).  Guards at the entrance appeared to run away as the 
vehicles turned onto the PC's driveway.  An previously unknown 
al-Qaeda-linked group, Abdullah Azzam Shaheed Brigade, claimed 
responsibility for the attack. 
 
June 11, Peshawar:  Militants attacked a police checkpost on the 
Grand Trunk Road, in the Lateefabad area, on the northeast 
outskirts of Peshawar.  The two-stage attack initiated when 
militants threw a hand grenade at a mobile police van forming 
part of the checkpost; a man wearing a suicide vest then 
approached the police and civilians who had congregated in the 
vicinity of the initial blast, killing two and wounding ten 
others, while destroying two police vans (ref B). 
 
June 11, Nowshera:  Security forces reportedly captured a top 
taliban commander, Qari Khurshid, a close aid of Swat-based 
commander Maulana Shah Dauran, along with two associates. 
Khurshid had operated in Buner, and is also accused of robbing 
banks, burning utility stores and kidnapping for ransom. 
 
NWFP - Kohat Division 
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¶9. (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Kohat 
Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) according to 
press and consulate contacts.  Kohat Division includes the 
districts of Kohat, Karak, and Hangu. 
 
June 5, Kohat:  A police official described to the press a trend 
that may signal Talibanization - the killing of alleged 
prostitutes in the district.  Police have discovered over eight 
mutilated bodies of girls and women in Skhdardarra, Ustarzai and 
Kohat over the last month.  No one will claim the bodies due to 
the social stigma attached to the kidnapping and killing of 
females. 
 
June 6, Hangu:  The commissioner summoned a peace jirga to 
discuss ways to make the Hangu-Parachinar highway safe and to 
stop kidnappings. 
 
June 11, Kohat:  The police elite force announced they had 
arrested a would-be suicide bomber (trained at a TTP camp in 
Orakzai Agency), a trainer, and 23 other militants from Khyber, 
Bannu, and Waziristan over an undefined period of time.  Police 
also said that they had set up 35 new checkposts, specially 
fitted to reduce damage from rocket attacks, throughout the 
district. 
 
June 11, Hangu:  Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jet fighters bombed 
suspected militant locations in the district (and in Orakzai 
Agency; see below). The strikes hit a house in Zaghari and a 
school, killing 13 people including women and children in the 
family of Hangu district JUI-F chief Maulana Din Asghar. 
 
NWFP - Bannu Division 
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¶10. (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Bannu 
Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) according to 
press and consulate contacts.  Bannu Division includes the 
districts of Bannu and Lakki Marwat. 
 
June 5, Lakki Marwat:  A mortar shell fell on a house, killing 
four.  Also, security services razed a portion of the house of 
an alleged militant in Kotka Khan Bahadur. 
 
June 6, Lakki Marwat:  Militants planted an IED, which exploded 
and injured a man. 
 
June 6, Bannu:  Law enforcement agencies arrested a foreign 
national trying to procure a Pakistani National Identity Card 
from the local NADRA office. 
 
June 9, Lakki Marwat: A jirga, meeting with civil and military 
officials, pledged to uproot militancy in the district.  Lakki 
Marwat is near the Janikhel area of FR Bannu, where military 
operations commenced. 
 
NWFP - Dera Ismail Khan Division 
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¶11. (SBU) The following incidents have occurred in the Dera 
Ismail Khan Division of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) 
according to press and consulate contacts.  Dera Ismail Khan 
Division includes the districts of D.I. Khan and Tank. 
 
June 6, Dera Ismail Khan:  Militants threw a hand-grenade at a 
house, injuring one female.  A second explosion destroyed an 
electronics shop.  Elsewhere, gunmen opened fire on a truck near 
a police station, killing a resident of Khyber. 
 
June 7, Dera Ismail Khan:  Gunmen on a motorcycle killed two 
Shi'a brothers at an auto mechanics shop.  Hours later, a man 
hurled a hand grenade into a Sunni Muslim mosque, injuring four. 
 In a third incident, a gunman opened fire at a vendor's stall, 
killing one.  Trade centers closed in the city after the 
incidents.  The District Police Officer (DPO) said that 
motorcycles would be banned from the city for an indefinite 
period. 
 
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June 8, Dera Ismail Khan:  Police arrested 60 suspects in the 
city as tensions increased over targeted killings. 
 
June 8, Tank:  Malik Turkistan Bhittani, commander of a militia 
affiliated with Qari Zainuddin's anti-TTP Mehsud militant group, 
warned a Mehsud tribal jirga to refrain from extending any 
support to TTP. 
 
June 9, Dera Ismail Khan:  Militants threw a hand grenade at a 
mobile police van, injuring eight, including five police. 
 
June 11, Dera Ismail Khan:  Two motorcyclists hurled a hand 
grenade into a cloth store, injuring 20.  Later, militants threw 
a grenade at Deputy Superintendant of Jail, injuring him and his 
brother at their residence.  In a third incident, assailants 
threw a hand-grenade at a grocery store, killing a vendor and 
injuring seven others. 
 
Northern FATA 
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¶12. (SBU) The following is a roundup of incidents of 
talibanization and government and community response in the 
Bajaur, Mohmand, and Khyber Agencies of the Federally 
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). 
 
June 4, Khyber:  Militants kidnapped the political tehsildar of 
Jamrud.  In a separate incident, gunmen kidnapped the assistant 
line officer of the Khasadar force from Jamrud.  Political 
authorities fined 20 Afghan nationals 1,000 rupees each and 
deported them at the Torkham border. 
 
June 5, Bajaur:  Security forces claimed to have arrested three 
foreign militants on their way to Lower Dir; they confiscated 
weapons and jihadi literature. 
 
June 6, Bajaur:  Militants affiliated with Faqir Mohammad fought 
a rival group, led by Masood Salar, in Mamoond area over a 
purported money dispute.  Three deaths were reported in the 
fighting. 
 
June 6, Mohmand:  Security forces arrested eight suspected 
militants and demolished 49 of their houses. 
 
June 7, Khyber:  Militants torched two buses, allegedly packed 
with smuggled goods, on the Pak-Afghan Highway.  Khasadars 
reported that militants had warned them not to "escort" smuggled 
goods or U.S. convoys to the Khyber Pass. 
 
June 8, Bajaur:  The Taliban reportedly took hostage a large 
number of members of the Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi 
(TNSM), including the local chief from Mamoond.   The Bajaur 
Political Agent convoked a jirga of elders from all tehsils in 
Bajaur except Charmang and received their agreement that they 
would not support militants. 
 
June 8, Mohmand:  Security forces arrested twelve suspected 
militants in a search operation in Khewzai Baizai tehsil after 
suspected militants fired on security forces there. 
 
June 9, Khyber:  Militants burned two vehicles loaded with 
thousands of meters of imported imitation leather in Landi 
Kotal.  Local tribesmen have declared their intent to stop 
smuggling through the area. 
 
June 9, Mohmand:  Militants fired 36 mortars at a checkpost in 
Amabar tehsil, injuring 11 troops. 
 
June 10, Khyber:  Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a doctor working 
at the Landikotal hospital; the hospital closed in protest. 
 
Southern FATA 
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¶13. (SBU) The following is a roundup of incidents of 
 
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talibanization and government and community response in the 
Orakzai, Kurram, North and South Waziristan Agencies of the 
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Frontier Regions 
south of the Khyber Agency. 
 
June 5, FR Kohat:  Militants attacked two security checkposts in 
Darra Adam Khel with rockets.  No casualties were reported. 
Police announced that a majority of the 14,000 proclaimed 
offenders in the seven FATA agencies and six Frontier Regions 
have hideouts in Darra Adam Khel and Orakzai. 
 
June 5, South Waziristan:  Militants killed four soldiers and 
injured two others when a landmine exploded while a security 
convoy heading toward Spinkai from Jandola passed, on 
Jandola-Spinkai Raghzai road.  In another incident, militants 
killed a soldier and injured two others with an IED planted near 
Angoor Adda, an area inhabited by Ahmadzai Wazir tribes who in 
2007 pledged not to attack security forces and government 
installations in their territory. 
 
June 6, FR Kohat:  Suspected militants fired four rockets at 
security posts in Darra Adam Khel. 
 
June 6, South Waziristan:    NWFP Information Minister Iftikhar 
Hussain said that TTP Swat leader Maulana Fazlullah had fled to 
Waziristan. 
 
June 7, FR Kohat:  Militants set off 11 explosions and destroyed 
a government high school for boys in Darra Adam Khel.  Police 
conducted a search operation in various areas of the city and 
arrested 18 suspects, including seven Afghans.  Security forces 
opened fire on a car feared to be carrying suicide attackers at 
the Friendship tunnel, wounding two.  Police claim that local 
militants have recently destroyed numerous Khasadar posts and 
bridges on the Indus Highway. 
 
June 7, Orakzai:  Health officials reported that militants, 
tribal elders and local clerics had hindered the recent 
anti-polio campaign by manhandling health department staffers. 
They estimated that 35 percent of the children of the agency 
were deprived of vaccination due to this activity. 
 
June 7, Kurram:  A jirga of Turi tribesmen demanded the 
government dismiss the assistant political agent (APA) of Lower 
Kurram, Ayaz Mondokhel, accusing him of supporting militants in 
the area.  The Hizbullah Militia, a militant wing of the Turi 
tribe, claimed to have discovered Mondokhel riding as a 
passenger in the flag-bearing vehicle of local militants. 
Hizbullah permitted Mondokhel to pass, but kidnapped four 
members of the Kurram Levy force, riding in the convoy.  The 
four personnel were later released. 
 
June 8, FR Kohat:  Security forces arrested six further 
militants in sweeps of suspected militant hideouts around Darra 
Adam Khel. 
 
June 8, Kurram:  Militants raided a Turi village in Lower Kurram 
near Alizai and killed a tribesman who was working in his fields 
before being driven off by armed villagers. 
 
June 9, Kurram:  Two gunship helicopters of the Pakistan Army 
fired several shells at a village in Lower Kurram. 
 
June 9-10, FR Bannu:  Security forces launched an operation 
against the Jani Khel and Bakka Khel tribes, killing more than 
80 militants and injuring dozens more during a two day 
operation.  Security forces also destroyed five bomb-equipped 
vehicles.  The forces, assisted by gunship helicopters and 
artillery, targeted militant hideouts.  The Army spokesman said 
that 600 to 800 terrorists were active in the Jani Khel area. 
 
June 10, South Waziristan:  Militants killed three soldiers and 
injured five in major attacks on the Siplatoi and Chakmalai 
checkposts and the Jandola Fort.  The army claimed to kill 22 
Tehrik-i-Taliban militants in hours of fierce fighting. 
 
 
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June 10, Kurram:  Heavy fighting was reported between Sunni 
militants and Shi'a tribesmen in the Makhayzai and Tangi areas 
of Lower Kurram, after the death of the Turi tribesman on the 
previous day. 
 
June 11, FR Kohat:  Militants ambushed and critically injured a 
NWFP provincial minister in Darra Adam Khel, killing his driver 
and two bodyguards (ref B).  NWFP Minister for Prisons Mian 
Nisar Gul Kakakhel was critically injured in the attack. 
Policemen in an escort vehicle killed the three attackers. 
 
June 11, Orakzai:  Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jet fighters bombed 
suspected militant locations in the agency (and in Hangu 
district; see above), killing 33 people, including Sunni Supreme 
Council chief Maulana Muhammad Amin and his nephew, and injuring 
29 others.  Military officials said Maulana Amin had close ties 
with militant leaders. 
 
June 11, FR Bannu:  The Pakistan Army attacked an area bordering 
militant strongholds in Waziristan, killing scores of Taliban 
fighters with helicopter gunships and artillery shelling. 
 
June 11, South Waziristan:  Dozens of militants attacked three 
army posts, triggering shootouts that left three soldiers and a 
claimed twenty insurgents dead. 
TRACY