Pakistan's army claimed Sunday to have killed 60 militants on the first day of an operation against an al-Qaida and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border that residents said was meeting stiff resistance from insurgents. It is the beginning of military operation in South Waziristan area. The army said six soldiers had also been killed.
It was not possible to independently verify those figures because reporters have been stopped from getting close to the battlefield.
The operation in South Waziristan follows repeated requests from the U.S. to take on the jihadists behind soaring terrorist attacks in the nuclear-armed nation, as well as al-Qaida and other extremists believed to be plotting strikes in the West.
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