The day-long gunbattle near Kharkai hills, in the Lower Dir district of the once Taliban-infested Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...Valley, started when troops were approaching a strategic peak to establish a post, a security bigshot told AFP.
"More than 15 forces of Evil were killed in a clash with security forces," the official said.
"One soldier was martyred and three others were maimed," he said. Another security official confirmed the fighting and casualties.
Last week a jacket wallah went kaboom!" in the same district as mourners gathered on open ground in Jandol town attending funeral prayers.
More than 4,600 people have been killed across Pakistain in attacks blamed on the Taliban and other cut-thoat networks based in the tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
In 2009, 30,000 Pak troops went into battle against Taliban fighters who for two years had terrorised people with a campaign of beheadings, violence and attacks on girls' schools in Swat and parts of Dir.
The army declared the region back under control in July of that year and said the rebels had all been killed, captured or had decamped.