{"id":1379,"date":"2015-05-02T18:20:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T18:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2015-05-02T18:20:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T18:20:49","slug":"pakistani-army-air-raids-kill-over-40-militants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/05\/02\/pakistani-army-air-raids-kill-over-40-militants\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani army air raids kill over 40 militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani military fighter jets have pounded militant positions in Pakistan\u2019s rugged northwestern tribal region close to the border with Afghanistan, killing at least 44 militants.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the Pakistani Army, the airstrikes were carried out in two separate militancy-riddled regions across the country\u2019s troubled northwest on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>At least 28 militants were killed during the aerial bombardment in Khyber district\u2019s Tirah Valley, while a series of airstrikes resulted in the deaths of 16 militants in North Waziristan tribal district, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say Pakistan Air Force jets also destroyed militants\u2019 hideouts and ammunition depots across the troubled areas.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani army started an operation against militant hideouts in North Waziristan last June after a deadly raid on the Karachi International Airport ended the government\u2019s faltering peace talks with the pro-Taliban militants.<\/p>\n<p>The military says it has killed more than 1,200 militants since launching the operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani military fighter jets have pounded militant positions in Pakistan\u2019s rugged northwestern tribal region close to the border with Afghanistan, killing at least 44 militants. According to a statement released by the Pakistani Army, the airstrikes were carried out in two separate militancy-riddled regions across the country\u2019s troubled northwest on Saturday. At least 28 militants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asia-and-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}