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KALAYA: In what is being described here as a major success in the military operation in the Orakzai region, security forces took control of the Taliban headquarters of Dabori on Sunday.
According to sources, troops seized the small town after fierce clashes with insurgents and launched a mopping up operation in the area. The town served as a base of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in the region.
The sources said that the TTP had set up training centres in Dabori and their ‘courts’ in the town handed out so-called verdicts under which tribesmen were executed and flogged in public.
A video released a few months ago showed Taliban beheading a man in the main ground of Dabori with a large number of people watching the slaughter.
Troops, backed up by tanks, helicopter gunships and planes, killed at least 37 militants and injured 28 others in the area. Five soldiers were injured in the clashes, the sources said.
Local people confirmed that troops had marched into Dabori and adjacent areas. About 172 tribesmen, some tribal elders among them, have been killed and 314 injured in suicide attacks and bomb blasts in Dabori after local tribes raised a lashkar to combat the militants. Taliban Commander Gul Zaman, who was in-charge of the TTP bastion, is reported to have fled the area.
According to reports reaching here, Taliban had vacated their positions in the area before the arrival of troops who took control of schools, a hospital and government offices.
Militants also suffered heavy casualties in sporadic clashes and air strikes in Orakzai’s central tehsil. The reports said that 18 terrorists were killed and six injured in the offensive.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Troops seize Taliban bastion in Dabori, Orakzai
According to sources, troops seized the small town after fierce clashes with insurgents and launched a mopping up operation in the area. The town served as a base of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in the region.
The sources said that the TTP had set up training centres in Dabori and their ‘courts’ in the town handed out so-called verdicts under which tribesmen were executed and flogged in public.
A video released a few months ago showed Taliban beheading a man in the main ground of Dabori with a large number of people watching the slaughter.
Troops, backed up by tanks, helicopter gunships and planes, killed at least 37 militants and injured 28 others in the area. Five soldiers were injured in the clashes, the sources said.
Local people confirmed that troops had marched into Dabori and adjacent areas. About 172 tribesmen, some tribal elders among them, have been killed and 314 injured in suicide attacks and bomb blasts in Dabori after local tribes raised a lashkar to combat the militants. Taliban Commander Gul Zaman, who was in-charge of the TTP bastion, is reported to have fled the area.
According to reports reaching here, Taliban had vacated their positions in the area before the arrival of troops who took control of schools, a hospital and government offices.
Militants also suffered heavy casualties in sporadic clashes and air strikes in Orakzai’s central tehsil. The reports said that 18 terrorists were killed and six injured in the offensive.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Troops seize Taliban bastion in Dabori, Orakzai