In Pakistan, at least 31 militants have been killed and scores of others injured as jet fighters targeted militants hideouts in Koki Khel area of Tirah Valley today, said an ISPR statement. Four terrorist hideouts and a suicide bomber-training center were also destroyed.

The Army has intensified its offensives in the tribal areas after the massacre of people in a school in Peshawar in December. The military has been targeting Taliban and Lashkar-i-Islam militants in the region since October.

In Pakistan, an anti-terrorism court has issued black warrants for the execution of seven condemned prisoners, including four militants of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ). The court Saturday issued warrants for the hanging of four LJ militants in two sectarian killing cases.

The black warrants were also issued for an Al Qaeda terrorist for killing two policemen near the US Consulate General in Karachi and the other for murdering a lawyer in a courtroom of the Sindh High Court. The seventh prisoner to be hanged is for killing a minor boy after kidnapping him for ransom. The court asked the jail authorities to hang five prisoners on the 13th, one on 14th and one on the 15th of this month.