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Pak troops storm Taliban bastion

28 militants killed

AFP, AP, BBC ONLINE, Islamabad
Pakistan's military said yesterday that its forces had stormed into yet another Taliban stronghold and killed 28 militants and five troops during a major ground and air offensive about to enter its fourth week.
Pakistani forces have captured the strategically important town of Ladha from the Taliban ip ongping clashes in South Waziristan, officials say.
According to the military, 28 militants and five soldiers have been killed in battles over the last 24 hours.
"Today, security forces have entered Makin. A large part of the town has been cleared while
clearance operation is continuing in the remaining part," the military said in a statement written in English.
Pakistan has vowed to crush Tehreek-e-Taliban in South Waziristan, part of the border area with Afghanistan that Washington calls the most dangerous place in the world because of an abundance of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
The military provides the only regular information coming ffom (he frontlines. None of the details can be verified because communication lines are down and journalists and aid workers barred from the area.
A house of Baitullah Mehsud, theTehreek-e-Taliban chief who was killed in a US drone attack last August, had been razed, the army said.
The military reported "intense engagements" in the Makin area and terrorists "fleeing leaving behind their weapons and ammunition."
It added that 25 militants had been killed so far around Makin and three others in Sararogha. which shot to local infamy as the operational centre of Mehsud before he was killed on August 5.
Pakistan launched its fierce air and ground offensive into the northwest region on October 17, with some 30,000 troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships laying siege to Tehreek-e-Taliban bolt-holes.
So far, the military has claimed to have killed 450 militants since the operation iregah. with 47 troops losing their lives.
The long-awaited assault on South Waziristan came after a spring offensive in and around the northwestern Swat valley. In July, the government declared the offensive a success but sporadic outbreaks of violence have continued.