Pakistan shows anti-Taliban mission(2)
Footage released by Pakistani services Public Relations shows its military engaged in combat against a Taliban insurgent base in South Warziristan.
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The circumstances surrounding this video could not be
independently verified. The Pakistani military said its soldiers
secured a fort captured from militants in the northwest of the
country on Thursday and consolidated their positions on peaks
around another insurgent base.
The army launched an offensive on Oct. 17 aimed at rooting out
and defeating Pakistani Taliban militants in South Waziristan on
the Afghan border. The military says 28 militants have been killed
in the previous 24 hours, taking their death toll to 422 since the
offensive began. Five soldiers including an officer were killed and
two were wounded.