RAWALPINDI: The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday that 110 square kilometres area in Rajgal valley has been cleared by the forces as Operation Khyber-4 continues as planned, after it was launched to ?wipe out terrorists? in the area under Radd-ul-Fasaad earlier this month.

The military?s media wing said that the forces successfully cleared 110 square kilometres in the Rajgal valley of Khyber Agency after a number of terrorist hideouts in the area were "dismantled" and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) neutralised.

Terrorists had laid a number of IEDs which were detected, recovered and neutralised by the Pakistan Army Engineers Counter IED teams. ?Forces [are] searching cleared areas of Wucha Wana, Bagh, Ziarat Sereh and Pak Darra,? the ISPR said.

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Meanwhile 42 suspects had been arrested in Islamabad, Lahore and Rawalpindi over the past 48 hours as the Punjab Rangers, along with the Counter-Terrorism Department Punjab and police, conducted operations against terrorists and their facilitators in the province, the ISPR added.

Operation Khyber-4 seeks to target terrorist hideouts in what the DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor has called "the most critical area in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata)".