A Pakistani security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Saturday that the airstrikes targeted Taliban’s positions at separate locations in North Waziristan’s Shawal area.
Six militant hideouts and an unknown number of their vehicles were destroyed in the airstrikes, the official said.
A second Pakistani security official confirmed the airstrikes and the death toll.
However, the exact number of casualties could not be independently verified since journalists are banned from travelling to the remote mountainous area.
Pakistan’s army intensified its military operations after pro-Taliban elements killed over 150 people, most of them children, in an armed assault on a school in Peshawar in December 2014.
Pakistan’s military says more than 3,600 militants have been killed since the launch of the operation. Nearly 360 Pakistani have also been killed.
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