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Locals migrating to safe places after airstrikes in North Waziristan
Last Updated On 23 January,2014 About 7 minutes ago
Tuesday's operation was one of the heaviest bombardments in recent years in North Waziristan.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk) - Fearing military operation, locals of the restive North Waziristan Agency are migrating to safer places on the third day after PAF jets shelled militant hideouts in Mir Ali and Miranshah areas, Dunya News reported on Thursday.
Markets were closed and business activities remained suspended in different areas.
According to sources, the people were fleeing their homes ahead of possible military action in Mir Ali.
On the other hand, Political Agent Siraj Ahmad Khan has appealed the locals to stop migrating as there is no danger.
The air strikes in the North Waziristan tribal region on Tuesday followed two major Taliban attacks on military targets in as many days.
According to security sources, three Germans were among 40 people killed when Pakistani jets and helicopters bombarded suspected militant hideouts in North Waziristan.
Officials said some of those killed were linked to an attack on Sunday on paramilitary troops in the northwestern city of Bannu that killed 26, and a double suicide bombing on a church in September that killed more than 80.
Another military official said a few families had fled the fighting and moved out of the tribal areas, but so far there has been no mass migration from the area.
The government officials said that around 500 families fled to Bannu district from North Waziristan after the bombardment.
"Some 500 families from Mir Ali sub-division of North Waziristan have migrated to Bannu. They are living with the local host tribes of Mamashkhel and Bakakhel in Bannu," said Arshad Khan, head of the Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA).
Last Updated On 23 January,2014 About 7 minutes ago
Tuesday's operation was one of the heaviest bombardments in recent years in North Waziristan.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk) - Fearing military operation, locals of the restive North Waziristan Agency are migrating to safer places on the third day after PAF jets shelled militant hideouts in Mir Ali and Miranshah areas, Dunya News reported on Thursday.
Markets were closed and business activities remained suspended in different areas.
According to sources, the people were fleeing their homes ahead of possible military action in Mir Ali.
On the other hand, Political Agent Siraj Ahmad Khan has appealed the locals to stop migrating as there is no danger.
The air strikes in the North Waziristan tribal region on Tuesday followed two major Taliban attacks on military targets in as many days.
According to security sources, three Germans were among 40 people killed when Pakistani jets and helicopters bombarded suspected militant hideouts in North Waziristan.
Officials said some of those killed were linked to an attack on Sunday on paramilitary troops in the northwestern city of Bannu that killed 26, and a double suicide bombing on a church in September that killed more than 80.
Another military official said a few families had fled the fighting and moved out of the tribal areas, but so far there has been no mass migration from the area.
The government officials said that around 500 families fled to Bannu district from North Waziristan after the bombardment.
"Some 500 families from Mir Ali sub-division of North Waziristan have migrated to Bannu. They are living with the local host tribes of Mamashkhel and Bakakhel in Bannu," said Arshad Khan, head of the Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA).
