Pakistani army launches anti-terrorist operation on the Afghan border.

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ISLAMABAD Pakistan's army launched a counter-terrorist operation by land and air in the country's northwest border with Afghanistan, a week after the attack in the western city of Quetta that caused 72 dead and over 100 injured, reported today one military source.

"The operation is carried along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan in the valley Rajgal in high mountain passes" in the Khyber region, he said in his official account on Twitter Office of Public Relations of the Pakistani Army, Efe .

The Pakistani Army maintains in tribal areas of the country since June 2014 Zarb-e-Azb, an operation that has killed some 3,400 suspected insurgents.

The offensive aims to "reduce the movement of terrorists across the border," he added.

Ground operations and aerial bombing destroyed nine grounds shelters insurgents and a large number "were hit accurately on dangerous ground," said the Army.

Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain said on Saturday in celebration of Independence Day Asian country to avenge the victims of attacks such as Quetta, one of the worst so far this year in Pakistan.

"The blood of the martyrs of Quetta will not be in vain," he said in his speech to the nation.

On day 8, a man detonated the bomb he was carrying in a hospital in this city, which had been transferred the body of a gunned hours before lawyer, at the time when many scholars and journalists had come to the center .

The attack was claimed by the Taliban group Jamaat ul Ahrar and also by the Islamic State jihadist organization.

The Pakistani Army maintains in tribal areas of the country since June 2014 Zarb-e-Azb, an operation that has killed some 3,400 suspected insurgents.

The government and the Pakistani Army attributed to Zarb-e-Azb the decline in violence in the country, where the number of civilian casualties in terrorist attacks has dropped by almost half in the first half of the year compared with the same period 2015, despite attacks such as Quetta or that last March caused 73 deaths and more than 300 injured in Lahore (east).