Pakistani paramilitary troops threatened the city of Peshawar and a close tribal area known as the Khyber Agency. The operation started Friday, when hundreds of troops, soldiers and police crowded the capital of North-West Frontier Province.

A day later, 400 supplementary paramilitary troops came in Bara, the most important city in Khyber Agency, and set up checkpoints in the area. Government forces damaged a private prison managed by insurgents and took control of some insurgent redoubts in the region.

The Pakistani forces destroyed the house of Haji Namdar, the chief of an Islamic militant group, killing at least six persons. The inhabitant Nawaz Khan Afridi declared he was awakened by a powerful explosion and joined the other residents in order to rescue the survivors.

A security official said that “it was part of the ongoing operation. Our ground forces were involved." They also devastated the residence of another Islamic leader, Mangal Bagh, in Bara, and ruined the head offices of an Islamist group. The attack against Khyber Agency forced numerous insurgents under the authority of extremist leader Mangal Bagh to draw back to Tirah Valley, a terrain close to the Afghan border. Bagh required armed forces in his Lashkar-e-Islam militia to quit during a transmission on his pirate radio station in Khyber Agency on Saturday.

"We are not militants, and that's why we are not resisting the Pakistani forces," said Misri Khan, a Lashkar-e-Islam leader. "They are like our brothers. So why should we fight them?"