Saturday, July 25, 2009

Security developments in Pakistan, July 25

ISLAMABAD - Security forces killed 13 militants in clashes in the northwestern Swat valley and the nearby Buner district in the past 24 hours, the military said in a statement on Saturday. Independent verification of casualty figures is unavailable.

* LAKKI MARWAT - A suspected suicide attack wounded five policemen and eight civilians in the northwestern town of Lakki Marwat, police official Habibullah said.

LOWER DIR - Security forces killed 16 militants in Lower Dir on Friday, paramilitary officials said of the northwestern district where troops have been battling insurgents for nearly three months.

QUETTA - Security agencies killed a suspected terrorist and arrested seven, including an Arab national, during a raid on a house in the southwestern Quetta city on Saturday, intelligence officials said. Suicide jackets, arms and explosives were also seized.

MIRANSHAH - Two Pakistani helicopter gunships on Saturday fired at a suspected house near Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border, killing a woman and wounding three, witnesses said.

MIRANSHAH - Pakistani Taliban shot dead an Afghan refugee in a village south of Miranshah, accusing him of being a U.S. spy and dumped his body on a roadside with a threat -- anyone spying for the United States will meet a similar fate, witnesses and intelligence officials said on Saturday.

KOHAT - Seven policemen were wounded while trying to defuse an improvised explosive device planted on a roadside along the Indus Highway in the northwestern region of Kohat on Saturday, security officials said.

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