They say that 19 militants and six soldiers have died in clashes since Monday night.
The latest fighting was near the town of Jandola in the east. The army says its next target is the key Taliban-held territory around the Sararogha plains.
Meanwhile gunmen in Islamabad have attacked a high-ranking army officer.
Police said that the unnamed brigadier was attacked as he drove through the capital on Tuesday in the second targeted shooting of a senior officer in less than a week.
They said that the officer and his mother escaped unhurt from the assault - believed to have been carried out in retaliation for the army's offensive in South Waziristan.
On Thursday gunmen on a motorcycle fired on an army jeep in another part of Islamabad, killing They say that 19 militants and six soldiers have died in clashes since Monday night.
The latest fighting was near the town of Jandola in the east. The army says its next target is the key Taliban-held territory around the Sararogha plains.
Meanwhile gunmen in Islamabad have attacked a high-ranking army officer.
Police said that the unnamed brigadier was attacked as he drove through the capital on Tuesday in the second targeted shooting of a senior officer in less than a week.
They said that the officer and his mother escaped unhurt from the assault - believed to have been carried out in retaliation for the army's offensive in South Waziristan.
On Thursday gunmen on a motorcycle fired on an army jeep in another part of Islamabad, killing a brigadier and a soldier in what was believed to be the first killing of an army officer in Islamabada brigadier and a soldier in what was believed to be the first killing of an army officer in Islamabad
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