Pakistani Officials: Airstrikes Kill 21 Militants

Pakistani airstrikes have killed at least 21 militants in their hideouts Sunday in a restive northwestern tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, officials say. The attacks were launched in the Kuki Khel area of the Khyber tribal district, where the Taliban and another banned Islamist group, Lashkar-e-Islam, have taken refuge. According to the Pakistan Defense Forces two militant hideouts were also destroyed.  These claims could not be independently verified as journalists have...

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