(NSI News Source Info) RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - April 29, 2009: Pakistani security forces have killed 50 Taliban and lost one soldier in an operation to drive the militants out of the strategic valley 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Islamabad, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. 
Pakistan's military spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas briefs the media about the recently launched military operation, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Pakistan deployed troops and bombed Taliban positions in a district near the capital Tuesday, the military said, in an expansion of an offensive against militants seemingly emboldened by a much-criticized peace deal.
Major-General Athar Abbas told a newsconference in Rawalpindi, the garrison town next door to the capital, that forces in Buner has also freed 18 of some 70 police and militiamen kidnapped by the militants on Tuesday.
Pakistani soldiers had earlier occupied the main town of Daggar, but hundreds of Taliban remain in the valley.
Pakistan's military spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas briefs the media about the recently launched military operation, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Pakistan deployed troops and bombed Taliban positions in a district near the capital Tuesday, the military said, in an expansion of an offensive against militants seemingly emboldened by a much-criticized peace deal.
Major-General Athar Abbas told a newsconference in Rawalpindi, the garrison town next door to the capital, that forces in Buner has also freed 18 of some 70 police and militiamen kidnapped by the militants on Tuesday.
Pakistani soldiers had earlier occupied the main town of Daggar, but hundreds of Taliban remain in the valley.
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