KHAR: Troops Secure Bajaur After 15 Years Latest News The army first mounted an operation in Bajaur in August 2008 and claimed victory in February last year, only for violence to return when their focus switched to Pakistani Taliban fighters in Swat and South Waziristan.
"Then this surrendered valley again turned into militant safe haven, we then came back and cleared the area," said Khan.
Damadola covers four to six square kilometres (1.5 to two square miles) and lies 20 kilometres from the Afghan border, Colonel Noman Saeed told AFP.
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