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Pak forces oust militants from Peshawar

25 suspected rebels killed in fighting

AP, AFP, peshawar
A two-week operation to secure the frontier city of Peshawar, which sits on a key supply route for US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, killed 25 suspected militants, a Pakistani official said yesterday.
Security forces backed by warplanes and artillery swept through an area between the city and Pakistan's wild tribal belt, where Taliban and al-Qaeda mili tants have found refuge.
Zafrullah Khan, commander of paramilitary Frontier Constabulary troops in the area, said his force and police have taken control of 22 of 25 targeted villages and would clear the others within a week.
"The militants in these areas have been a big threat to the writ of the government.”
Khan said. "They have been a main source and origin of the crimes in Peshawar and other cities of the province."
Some 25 suspects have been killed and another 35 arrested during the operation, he said. He said those detained included foreigners, but provided no details.
Four suicide jackets and weapons, including guns, rockets and grenades were seized, he said.
Rising violence in the northwest, including the shooting death of an American aid worker in Peshawar, have heightened concern that the city itself is under threat.
Pakistani troops have been battling Taliban militants in Bajur, a nearby tribal region, since August. The fighting has spread to neighbouring Mohmand, which borders the villages targeted in the
sweep near Peshawar
I he city is a vital hub for military and relief efforts in Pakistan's northwest as well as lying on a supply route for foreign troops fighting in Afghanistan
Meanwhile, a bomb blast injured at least eight people Monday at a mosque in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar, officials said.
The bomb, planted inside a minority Shiite sect mosque in the crowded neighbourhood of Hashtnagri, went off just after evening prayers, they said.
"Eight people are injured in the bomb blast,' area police official Saleem Khan told AFP.
Doctors at Peshawar's main Lady Reading hospital said that the victims were in a stable condition.