 Director General Military Operation (DGMO) Major General Ahmad Shuja Pasha said on Wednesday that the army had achieved a primary target of the ‘Rah-e-Haq Operation’ in Swat by clearing the valley of miscreants and establishing the writ of the government there. “The miscreants have been pushed to the Peochar area and to the snow-capped mountains, and peace has returned to the valley,” Pasha briefed journalists at the army auditorium here.
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The DGMO said no steps were being contemplated to introduce legal and administrative changes affecting the Peshawar High Court’s jurisdiction in relation to Swat. He said the Rah-e-Haq Operation started on November 13 last year and was jointly executed by the 23rd Division of 10 Corps and 17th Division of 11 Corps. “The army cleared the valley by December 24,” he said. Pasha said 36 soldiers had embraced martyrdom and another 72 were injured in the operation, while 9 civilians had died and another 45 injured. He added that the civilians were compensated for all damages. |