Pakistan army says 55 militants, 2 troops killed in battle for district near capital

September 4th, 2009 Army: 5 militants killed in northwest PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan says paramilitary troops have killed five suspected militants and arrested 24 in an ongoing operation in the northwestern Khyber tribal region. The paramilitary Frontier Corps announced the deaths in a statement Friday.

July 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Army said Saturday that 14 Taliban fighters were killed in clashes with security forces in the country's northwestern Swat valley and its adjoining district of Buner. According to an army statement 10 militants died when the troops conducted search operations in four areas of Buner, located some 100 km northwest of Islamabad.

May 22nd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Three militants were killed Friday when army troops foiled an infiltration bid in the Tangdhar sector at the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir, officials said. Troops detected and challenged a group of infiltrators at the LoC in Kupwara district as soon as they crossed the border in the Tangdhar sector, a defence spokesman said here.

May 7th, 2009 KABUL - Afghan army forces killed five Taliban militants in a clash in eastern Afghanistan while three other insurgents were killed by their own bomb, officials said Thursday. Taliban militants attacked an army outpost in Yahyakhel district of the south-eastern Paktia province Wednesday, but the soldiers at the post repulsed the attack, the Afghan Defence Ministry said in a statement.

May 7th, 2009 KABUL - Afghan army forces killed five Taliban militants in a clash in eastern Afghanistan while three other insurgents were killed by their own bomb, officials said Thursday. Taliban militants attacked an army outpost in Yahyakhel district of the south-eastern Paktia province Wednesday, but the soldiers at the post repulsed the attack, the Afghan Defence Ministry said in a statement.

May 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Eighty Taliban militants have been killed in the ongoing military operation in Pakistan's Buner district, TV reports said. The Pakistani Army had launched a major offensive against Taliban militants in Buner district Tuesday.

May 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani troops killed up to 60 Taliban militants in the northwestern valley of Buner, raising the insurgents' death toll to more than 100 in four days of fighting, an army spokesman said Friday. 'Between 55 and 60 militants have been killed during the last 24 hours in Buner,' Major General Athar Abbas told reporters here.

April 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Army on Wednesday launched an areal offensive on the Taliban in Buner district. The Pakistan army is said to be on its final leg of operations in Buner.

April 29th, 2009 Dozens killed as Pakistan troops battle TalibanISLAMABAD — Government troops sought to drive stubborn Taliban militants from a district near the Pakistani capital after unleashing airstrikes that killed more than 50 enemy fighters, the military said. One member of the security forces also died and more than 50 others were abducted amid escalating clashes in the Buner region, the top military spokesman said.

April 19th, 2009 JAMMU - A woman, two security personnel and a militant were killed in a gun battle in Jammu and Kashmir Sunday, police said. A group of three militants ambushed a security patrol party in the Kashtigarh forest belt of Doda district in the morning.

April 19th, 2009 JAMMU - An army jawan and a special police officer were killed in a gun battle with militants Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district, police said. The incident took place when militants ambushed a patrol party of the soldiers and the police in the Ghat area of Doda, 180 km from Jammu.

April 19th, 2009 JAMMU - At least two security personnel, including one army jawan, were killed in an ongoing gun battle with militants that began Sunday morning in a remote mountainous area of Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district, police said. 'When specific information was received (about the presence of militants), the area around Kastigarh forest area was cordoned off to nab the militants present there,' Deputy Inspector General of Police Hemant Lohia said.

January 24th, 2009 JAMMU - Two militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen outfit were killed by the army in a 'surgical operation' in the mountainous forests of Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district Sunday, officials said. The gunbattle took place in the forests of Sher Bibi near Banihal in Ramban district overlooking the vital Jammu-Srinagar national highway in the morning.

January 8th, 2009 JAMMU - The army Friday kept up the search for militants who escaped from a dense forest in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir after an eight-day battle with security forces. There was a 'possibility of terrorists having slipped out taking advantage of the rugged terrain and prevailing climatic conditions', the army said late Thursday night.

January 3rd, 2009 JAMMU - The gun battle in a Jammu and Kashmir border district continued for the fourth day Sunday, in which seven people - four militants and three security personnel - have been killed, defence sources said. The shootout between security forces and militants in frontier Poonch district erupted Thursday in a dense forested area.