10 militants killed in Pakistan clashes

Pakistani security forces killed 10 suspected militants and wounded 25 others today in new clashes near the Afghan border, a government official said.

More than 100 people, most of them militants, have been reported killed in the fighting in the Bajur tribal region in the last five days. The region is a suspected hide-out of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, and has been the focus of a major Pakistani military operation.