Troops recovered the eight corpses late Tuesday after they were spotted by local residents in the Khyber tribal district, where Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver....
fighters are based.
Five bodies were recovered from one place and three from another, a senior government official in Khyber told AFP on condition of anonymity.
A second official in Khyber confirmed the recovery.
The army launched a fresh offensive in Khyber district this year against Death Eater group Lashkar-e-Islam, led by warlord Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency
...who has joined hands with the homegrown Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
Neither the military nor rival turbans claimed the killings. But troops have in the past been accused of the extra-judicial killing of captured turbans in the region.
Retired brigadier Mahmood Shah, a former security chief for the tribal areas, told AFP the deaths could also be a result of infighting among Death Eater groups.
Separately, 15 turbans were killed on Wednesday as jets hit their hideouts in North
Wazoo tribal district, where the army began a major offensive earlier this year, the military said in a statement.An intelligence official told AFP the planes bombed a meeting place for forces of Evil in Datta Khel village, and said the dead included six Arabs and seven Uzbeks.
It was not possible to independently verify the casualties.
Pakistain's semi-autonomous areas have long been a hideout for Islamist turbans of all stripes -- including Al-Qaeda and the TTP as well as imported muscle.
Pak jets and artillery began targeting rebel strongholds in North Waziristan in mid-June and ground forces moved in on June 30.
The army says it has killed more than 1,100 turbans and lost more than 100 soldiers since then.
An AFP tally based on regular updates from the military puts the Death Eater corpse count at more than 1,500, with 125 soldiers killed.
Meanwhile in the southwestern city of Quetta, capital of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province, two coppers from an elite unit were killed while patrolling on a cycle of violence by unknown gunnies.
Officials said that three men riding another motorbike chased the coppers on the city's Saryab road and sprayed bullets at them. One policeman was killed at the spot while the other died in a hospital.
Balochistan, Pakistain's largest but least developed and most sparsely populated province, is racked by Islamist Death Eaters, banditry, a separatist revolt and sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites.