SOUTH WAZIRISTAN OFFENSIVE
Troops enter last of major Taliban strongholds
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The Pakistani army on Friday entered Makeen, the last of three insurgent strongholds targeted by a major offensive in the northwest, as gunmen wounded a senior army officer and a soldier in the capital, Islamabad.
The Pakistani army has vowed to continue the South Waziristan offensive despite a wave of such apparently retaliatory attacks in the past month. It says it is now fighting bloody street-to-street battles in each of the three main Taliban strongholds in the region -- Makeen, Sararogha and Ladha.
Makeen is the home town of former Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike in August. Troops razed Mehsud's house.
Also Friday, police fatally shot two would-be suicide bombers in the northwestern town of Balakot, a police official said.
-- Associated Press
