Nearly 50 Militants Killed On Pakistan-Afghan Border: Officials

Supporters of Pakistani Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami offer funeral prayers for three students who died in a shootout, in Karachi August 27, 2008.Three students died in a gun fight at Karachi University as rival campus political groups battled, raising concern trouble could spill onto the streets of the volatile city. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN)

Nearly 50 Militants Killed On Pakistan-Afghan
Border: Officials -- Yahoo News/AFP

KHAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistani troops Wednesday killed up to 50 militants, including foreign fighters, near the troubled Afghan border amid an upsurge in Taliban-inspired bloodshed, security officials said.

More than 30 rebels died in the Bajaur tribal district, a hub of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, where government forces have for three weeks been conducting an extensive operation to destroy their hideouts.

"Security forces killed 25-30 militants, including some important commanders and foreigners in Bajaur's Raghan region," a security official told AFP.

In another clash, Pakistani helicopter gunships pounded militant hideouts on Wednesday in a different part of Bajaur bordering Afghanistan, killing eight rebels and wounding 12 others, a separate security official said.

Pakistani forces moved into Bajaur earlier this month.

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