The corpse count from the military offensive has risen to 35.
Fighter jets and helicopter gunships had earlier bombed hideouts of suspects in the tribal regions of North
Wazoo and Khyber.The air strikes -- targeting hideouts in Mir Ali, Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
and Tirah Valley -- came in response to the recent surge in myrmidon attacks targeting security forces.
A security official had claimed that four hideouts were flattened in the blitz in the Inzar Kor area of the remote valley.
The official had dismissed suggestion that the attacks were a formal launch of a military offensive against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and its affiliates.