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Wide of valley showing Ladha town 2. Close of sign reading (Urdu) \"Ladha Islamic School\" 3. Wide of Pakistani soldiers on top of hillside 4. Close of sign on wall, reading (Urdu) \"Tarik-e-Taliban, Pakistan\" ++MUTE++5. Wide of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLadha\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of valley showing Ladha town \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of sign reading (Urdu) \"Ladha Islamic School\" \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Pakistani soldiers on top of hillside \u003cbr/\u003e4. Close of sign on wall, reading (Urdu) \"Tarik-e-Taliban, Pakistan\" ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of Ladha \u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of street in Ladha, showing damaged buildings \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid, tracking shot of buildings\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of captured militant weapons, ammunition and explosives on table\u003cbr/\u003eSararogha\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up of Taliban leaflets on ground \u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up of computer keyboards and ammunition on ground \u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of documents and passports on ground\u003cbr/\u003eLadha\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Major General Athar Abbas, Pakistani military spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Ladha Fort along with the nallah (small stream) and mountain, which you can see behind, this fort was surrounded by the terrorists last year for six weeks and the supply lines on the road had become blocked. Now we have occupied it.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSararogha\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close up of grenades in box, tilt up to weapons captured from militant fighters\u003cbr/\u003eDera Ismail Khan\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's helicopter landing \u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of Gilani getting out of helicopter \u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of soldier putting non-food aid items on table \u003cbr/\u003e17. Close up of Gilani, zoom out \u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of Pakistani soldier with weapon \u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of Gilani at news conference \u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistani Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"As far as the military operation in South Waziristan is concerned, I am quite satisfied. I am satisfied because the army is achieving its target and the militant strongholds are being destroyed. The terrorists have moved from the area. We have benefited from the situation, and they are on the run, and abandoning huge amounts of ammunition which they would have used against us.\" \u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid of Gilani at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e22. Gilani's helicopter leaving\u003cbr/\u003eThe Pakistani military claims to have made significant progress in an ongoing ground and air offensive against Taliban and other militant fighters in the semiautonomous region of South Waziristan, along the Afghan border.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Tuesday, the army ferried reporters by helicopter to parts of South Waziristan, the only way media can visit the remote and sparsely populated region. \u003cbr/\u003eHumanitarian workers are also banned, meaning there have been few, if any, independent accounts from the battlefield.\u003cbr/\u003eReporters allowed into Ladha and Sararogha towns, which were both militant hubs before the offensive started in mid-October. \u003cbr/\u003eCommanders said Pakistani troops say they have retaken most population centres, roads and strategic high ground in the region but that insurgents remain in parts of the countryside.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Ladha, which lies closer to the Afghan border, a boarding school allegedly run by Taliban commander Qari Husain was in ruins. \u003cbr/\u003eSoldiers laid out hundreds of rounds of ammunition, boxes of grenades, dozens of rifles and anti-aircraft guns and a large cache of bomb-making components and chemicals. \u003cbr/\u003eAlso on display was a large haul of militant propaganda, training materials and bomb-making instructions in English, Urdu and Arabic, Pakistani passports as well dozens of photos of Taliban fighters posing with assault rifle and rocket launchers.\u003cbr/\u003eAmong the books was a 1985 U.S. Department of Army field manual; a Scout leaders' guide; the Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry and, bizarrely, the science fiction comedy \"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe\" by Douglas Adams.\u003cbr/\u003ePakistan's latest offensive close to the Afghan border has uprooted Taliban militants from long-held sanctuaries, an action the Obama administration says is crucial to success in Afghanistan amid surging violence against the United States NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) troops.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's not clear where the militants have now gone. \u003cbr/\u003eAlso unclear is whether the army will push its assault into other areas in the northwest where the U.S. says commanders responsible for much of the Afghan insurgency are based.\u003cbr/\u003eVideo from the town of Sararogha showed deserted streets, abandoned homes and businesses, and a number of destroyed buildings. \u003cbr/\u003eArmy spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told reporters that Ladha had been a safe haven for insurgents just last year, but now was in the control of the Pakistani military. \u003cbr/\u003eSararogha was home to a British colonial-era fort where a small contingent of poorly trained paramilitary forces was once based. \u003cbr/\u003eIn January 2008, militants attacked the base and executed 25 of the soldiers. \u003cbr/\u003eThe post and the surrounding town of 10-thousand people were abandoned to the insurgents.\u003cbr/\u003eMilitary officials said that 30 militants and seven soldiers were killed in the battle for Sararogha, and that militants left behind more than 60 booby traps and 20 suicide jackets. \u003cbr/\u003eAs well as being the stronghold of the Taliban, Pakistan's deadliest militant network, South Waziristan has long been a refuge for al-Qaida leaders who fled here following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's considered a possible hiding place for Osama bin Laden.\u003cbr/\u003eThe army has tried three times since 2004 to defeat the Taliban here, but each attempt ended in negotiated truces after the military suffered heavy casualties.\u003cbr/\u003eThe current offensive was launched after an onslaught of insurgent attacks around the country and the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in a CIA (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) missile strike in August. \u003cbr/\u003eMore than 200-thousand people have fled and now live outside the region. \u003cbr/\u003eOverall the army says 500 militants and 70 soldiers have been killed in the operation so far. \u003cbr/\u003eIt has presented no evidence to back up the militant death toll. \u003cbr/\u003eBefore the operation began, it estimated there were about 10-thousand militants in the region.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani visited the city of Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday, the nearest large city near to the South Waziristan conflict zone.\u003cbr/\u003eGilani, accompanied by around 60 journalists, visited a centre where internally displaced people (IDPs) can receive food aid, and non-food items such as blankets, cooking utensils, and temporary shelters.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring a news conference, Gilani said that he was \"satisfied\" with the military's progress in South Waziristan, adding that many militants had fled the area, leaving their weapons and ammunition behind. \u003cbr/\u003eTens of thousands of IDPs continue to seek aid from the Pakistani Government and 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