Pakistan military has launched an assault on militants a week after the attack on Karachi airport.

At least 105 militants, including the Uzbek mastermind of the Karachi airport attack, were killed yesterday in raids by air force bombers in northwestern tribal region.

Pakistani jets bombed hideouts of terrorists in Degan and Dattakhel areas of North Waziristan.

The army said in a statement in Islamabad that there were confirmed reports of presence of foreign and local terrorists in these hideouts, who were involved in planning of the Karachi airport attack.

Eight hideouts of terrorists in North Waziristan Agency were also destroyed. The US also carried out two drone strikes in North Waziristan in which 16 militants were killed, including 10 from the dreaded Haqqani network.