Air force bombs suspected militant hide-outs in Pakistan

Pakistani fighter jets bombed suspected militant hide-outs today in a tribal region where the military had previously declared victory over the Taliban, killing eight alleged extremists a day after the end of a deadly siege of the army’s headquarters.

A series of attacks over the past week showed that the Taliban has rebounded and appears determined to shake the nation’s resolve as the military plans for an offensive in South Waziristan, the insurgents’ main stronghold along the Afghan border that has never been fully under the government’s control.