Pak army kills 59 militants

Pakistan's military says it has killed 59 militants in ground assaults and air strikes on Taliban units in areas near the border with Afghanistan.
The operations come days after the Taliban killed 141 people at a school in Peshawar, mostly children.
The military has stepped up its offensive against the insurgents in the provinces of the Khyber agency and North Waziristan. Assaults on militants in North Waziristan began in June.
This week's operations included a series of ground assaults and 20 air strikes by Pakistani jets in the Khyber tribal region, which killed 27 militants including an Uzbek commander.An ambush on Thursday night by special forces in the Tirah Valley, an area near the Afghan border, killed another 32 militants, according to a news agency.