Anti-Taliban offensive continues despite bombings

Pakistani forces pressed deeper into Taliban territory along the Afghan border today claiming to have killed 42 militants in the latest stage of the assault.

The push into South Waziristan’s unforgiving mountains has triggered a bloody backlash in the form of suicide attacks from militants, who are determined to bring the war out of the remote, north-western region and into the country’s cities in hopes of eroding public and political support.