BARA: Security forces have launched an operation against miscreants in Khyber Agency on Saturday.
Sources said that mortar shells have been fired from Qila Shahkas of FC in tehsil Jamrood.
Meanwhile, additional contingents of security forces have been dispatched to tehsil Bara from tehsil Jamrood.
The security forces convoy comprised of six armored vehicles and tanks.
Situation in Khyber Agency has been tense since several days and political administration has imposed indefinite curfew in the area. Sixty people have been killed and more than 80 injured so far in the clashes.
Fighter helicopters of Pakistan army made low flights over the area on Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud told foreign news agency on Saturday he was suspending peace talks with the government.
Security forces mounted a crackdown on militants in the Khyber tribal region near the main northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday.
Mehsud said he suspected operations would be ordered also against Taliban groups elsewhere in the region.
"The talks will remain suspended until the government stops talking about operations and attacks against us," he said by satellite phone from an undisclosed location.
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