Taliban resistance 'dying down'

Terrorist fired rockets at security forces checkpost at Lundai Nur. As a result of which, two soldiers were injured. On Razmak-Makeen Axis, forces are in the process of securing Makeen, which is being cleared on eastern edge.
During engagements, a fleeing vehicle with terrorists on board was engaged and destroyed while eight terrorists were killed.
In another clearance operation, three soldiers including two officers got injured due to terrorists’ fire. Huge quantity of arms and ammunition has been recovered from different compounds of Makeen.
As part of the Operation Rah-e-Rast in Swat and Malakand, forces apprehended eight terrorists from Batkhela, Daukadoa, Mingora and Udigram during routine search operation.
A terrorist voluntarily surrendered to troops at Daukadoa.
Total 8,338 Cash Cards have so fare been issued to displaced families of Waziristan. Meanwhile, Army Field Hospital has treated over 3,000 patients at Dera Ismail Khan.
Monitoring Desk adds: Quoting a senior govt official, the BBC has reported that unexpectedly the extremists are not putting up the much opposition and with each passing day their resistance is getting weaker.
He said many of the Taliban strongholds including Ladha, Kuniguram, Kotkai and Sararogha had been cleared, adding that the remaining northern parts of the agency where the security forces had not entered yet were Shaktoi, Sheen Sattargai, Kakrai, Baroond and Janta.
The official sources say that the frightened Taliban are leaving the area and are heading towards North Waziristan, Kurram and Orakzai agencies, adding that the jet fighters, gunship helicopters and heavy artillery is being used the target the reaming pockets of militants. But the locals say that there is no militant in Mehsud area as they had already left the belt before the operation.