By KUNA,
Islamabad : Pakistani security forces have killed over 87 militants and arrested about 107 others in the ongoing military operation in a tribal agency.
In the operation, which was launched against local militants in Khyber tribal agency last week, was still continuing and so far over eighty-seven militants have been killed, said Frontier Core (FC) media cell in a press statement.
It said that forces also destroyed about a dozen suspected militant camps and targeted seven vehicles.
Khyber agency had been the main route of NATO supplies and recently became hub of militant attacks on the NATO oil tankers, trucks carrying military vehicles, food and other items.
Though forces were already present in the area, taking action against militants but full fledged operation was launched last week after reports of abundance of illegal arms in the area.