Talking to a selected group of journalists in northern Beautiful Downtown Peshawar city Core Commander Lieutenant General Asif Yaseen Malik said that a Jirga was held before the launching of an operation in Kurram tribal agency and they themselves demanded the military for an action against thugs.
It may be mentioned here that the US had been demanding the military to launch operation in North
Wazoo tribal agency, where hundreds of forces of Evil of Arab and Central Asian origin are believed to have been hiding.Briefing journalists on military operation in Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
tribal agency, the commander said that it has reached in its final phase and that most of the areas had been cleared of thugs.
He said that about 68 soldiers have so far been killed in different operations and 300 were maimed. Whereas, he added, 200 forces of Evil were killed.
Earlier, Brigadier Aftab, the Operation Commander in Mohmand agency, told newsmen that 40 forces of Evil were killed in an operation in the last few days.