150 militants and 20 civilians among 173 persons killed in FATA during June 8 – 14, 2009

Source : Dawn; Daily Times; The News, June 9-15, 2009.

A US missile strike targeting militants killed three persons on June 14 in the Laddha region of South Waziristan Agency. "A drone attack targeting a militant vehicle killed three people in Mardar Algad area… There is a training camp close to this area," Amir Mohammad Khan, a local administration official in Laddha, stated. In addition, three people were killed and two injured when a vehicle carrying supplies for NATO forces hit a roadside bomb in South Waziristan.
30 terrorists, including a few foreigners, were killed and 50 injured at Makeen in South Waziristan due to an air strike on June 13, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) disclosed in a statement on June 14. Further, Air Force jets and helicopter gunships targeted suspected militant positions in the Salarzai and Nawagai areas of Bajaur Agency on June 14, killing at least nine militants. On June 13, the Security Forces (SFs) had reportedly killed 10 militants by targeting their hideouts with jetfighters and helicopter gunships in different areas of the Nawagai Sub-division.
SFs on June 13 claimed to have killed 24 militants in an operation in the Mohmand Agency. In addition, 12 civilians were killed when shells missed their targets and landed in the civilian areas of the agency.
Seven Taliban militants were killed by the SFs in Bajaur Agency’s Charmang area, considered to be a Taliban stronghold, on June 12, 2009. Planes and helicopters attacked militants’ positions in Tangi, Hashim Ziarat, Kotki and Babara.
SFs on June 12 killed 12 militants in the Mohmand Agency, targeting Taliban’s hideouts. In addition, five persons were killed when shells missed targets and landed in civilian areas. SFs are reported to have targeted the militants’ hideouts in Alingar, Akhunzadgan, Sagi, Sheikh Baba, Sooran Darra, Guloona and Shandarra areas of Safi and Khewzai Baizai sub-divisions with helicopter gunships, artillery, tanks and other sophisticated weapons.
Pakistan Air Force jet fighters, on June 11, bombed suspected locations of Taliban militants in the Orakzai Agency in FATA and the adjoining Hangu District in NWFP, killing 33 persons, including the Sunni Supreme Council chief Maulana Muhammad Amin and his nephew, and injuring 29 others. The local officials, however, put the death toll in the two regions at 50, including women and children. The warplanes targeted militants’ positions in Mushti Bazaar, Mushti Mela, Ferozkhel, Sheikhan, Dabori, Ghiljo, Khadeezai, Shahuwam and Sultanzai. 26 people were reportedly killed and 13 others injured in the daylong bombing in these villages of Orakzai Agency. The warplanes also targeted a madrassa (seminary) run by prominent cleric and leader of the Sunni Supreme Council of Hangu and Orakzai Agency, Maulana Mohammad Amin, at Shahuwam Bazaar in Orakzai. Besides six other people, the Maulana himself and his nephew Hafiz Rashid Ahmad were killed and a few others injured. Maulana Amin had reportedly close links with militants.
The Army killed 22 Taliban militants during fierce clashes in South Waziristan, the ISPR said on June 11. According to reports from Waziristan, the fighting broke out when around 400 militants attacked the Siplatoi check-post and the Jandola Fort late on June 10, and continued for several hours. Three soldiers died and five were injured in the fight, the military said in a daily update in Rawalpindi.