Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters continue to dominate the tribal agencies and are mounting into the settled districts of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan after NATO forces thrashed them from Afghanistan in 2001 for hosting Bin Laden and his allies, following the 9/11 incident. Since then allied forces are playing the cat and mouse game with the Islamic militants and frequently chase them in the safe den tribal region, where even the Pakistani army has given up the fight and signed a deal with tribal leaders.
Yesterday a missile strike, the latest in a series of U.S. strikes from Afghanistan against al-Qaeda and Taliban training camps run across the Northwest Frontier Province, killed at least 32 pro-Taliban militants including Uzbek, Chechen and Arab fighters in the town of Mami Rogha near the mountainous Datta Khel district of frontier Pakistan close to the Afghan border.
Though the Pakistani officials said the explosions were caused when bombs, the militants were making at an isolated compound, exploded accidentally, however, local residents said three missiles came from Afghanistan’s Paktika province and struck the mud-brick building.
Whatever be the truth at the back, one thing is for sure that the NATO forces are not going to sit back and wait the militants to come out of their den with some worse operations.
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