Around 130 pro-Taliban militants and 45 Pakistani soldiers have died in two days of intense fighting in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Fighting broke out in North Waziristan yesterday after rebels bombed army convoys and the military responded with air strikes and ground operations, according to military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad.
The clashes broke out after militants set off 'improvised explosive devices' and conducted ambushes on the security forces, he said.
Mr Arshad said contact had been established with a group of around 50 missing soldiers and only ten or 12 had not been accounted for, but it was not clear if any of those had been killed.
