Pakistan airstrikes on Taliban hideouts kill at least 30

Pakistani fighter jets and gunship helicopters bombarded hideouts of Taliban militants in the troubled northwest on Tuesday killing at least 15 militants, officials said.

Miranshah: Pakistani fighter jets and gunship helicopters bombarded hideouts of Taliban militants in the troubled northwest on Tuesday, killing at least 30 militants, officials said.

"The death toll from the airstrikes has risen to 30," a security official in Peshawar told AFP, updating the earlier death toll of 15.

The early morning attack on hideouts in the North and South Waziristan tribal districts were the fourth in a series of airstrikes by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) since February 20.

Earlier this month Pakistan had entered into talks with the Taliban aimed at ending their seven-year insurgency.

But the militant group has continued carrying out attacks on a near-daily basis, with dialogue suspended after the insurgents claimed last week they had executed 23 kidnapped soldiers in a northwestern tribal region. 

Since then the PAF has conducted a series of airstrikes in the volatile tribal regions bordering Afghanistan which are considered a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban and foreign fighters.

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