By Media Monitor Desk
BAJAUR: Inspector General of Frontier Core
Major General Tariq Khan has said that at least 54 militants,
including 7 important Taliban Commanders have been killed during
operation.
Briefing media persons here on Tuesday, the
IG FC said that the most wanted culprits including Aurangzeb who
was involved in 21 suicide attacks in Punjab was also killed
during the operation.
He said that the operation was started in
September 2008 in Bajaur but it was stopped and then again the
operation was started in January 2010, adding that the security
forces had completed the operation in very short period of time.
He said that security forces now had the
control from Khar to Afghanistan Border while Maulvi Faqir Ahmed
and Qari Zia had left the area and the writ of government has
been established in the area. He said that there would be a need
of US $ 1 billion for the rehabilitation and development of the
whole area.
The IG FC also introduced the tribal elders
and Lashkar men fighting the the Taliban to the media; he also
showed the mud caves where the militants used to live .The
tribesmen celebrated with full zeal and zest after the taking
over of FC in Bajaur.
