SWAT Security forces killed at least 15 Taliban militants, including two commanders, here in different parts of the scenic valley on Thursday. According to details, 11 militants were killed when security forces impounded their hideout in Sigraam koza Banda area, Kabal. According to the ISPR, Swat, militant commander Abu Furaj was killed during exchange of fire, while one security man got injured. Likewise in another clash in Bar Thana area of tehsil Matta, militant commander Alamgir and his father Shah Room, who was also an active militant, were also killed. The dead bodies of two militants, Mian Gul Saeed and Zakir, were found from Peauchar and Kwaza khela areas respectively. They were killed by unknown persons. The security forces also set five militants houses on fire in Kabal and Kanju Dherai. These included houses of terrorists Haroon, Fazl Amin, Mohammad Amir, Ashraf Ali and Mohammad Hussain. In another development, police recovered a large number of CDs carrying footages of Taliban sabotage activities from two shops. Our staff reporter from Islamabad adds: The security forces have been carrying out search and clearance operations, besides sensitisation of various areas under the control of terrorists, in the ongoing military operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan Agency, says an ISPR press statement issued here. The security forces during search operation discovered 22 inter-linked tunnels being used by the terrorists in Garezai Algad area in Shakai sector of South Waziristan. Each of the tunnels was around six to seven feet in length. In Jandola sector, the security forces conducted search operation at Tsapparai and destroyed 15 terrorists bunkers. In Razmak sector, the forces cleared large number of compounds at Kot Band Khel, Iman Khel Zingai and defused 9 IEDs. The security forces also conducted search and clearance operations at Lawara Punga, Wucha Dara, Badam Shah, Zarnai Killi, Pasal Kot, Shahudin, Dwa Khula, Talakai, Khajai and Qalandar and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunitions. As result of rockets fired by terrorists at Blanki Sar, one soldier was injured. A total of 16,255 Cash Cards have been issued to the displaced families of Wazirsitan. Reuters adds: Security forces killed at least 15 Taliban militants in clashes in the volatile northwest near the Afghan border. The latest clashes took place in the northwestern Swat valley, two days after a teenage suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban lawmaker in the region. The Army, battling a Taliban insurgency, launched what it said was a successful offensive in Swat in late April that cleared most of the area, but it still faces pockets of resistance. A Taliban commander Nasim Shah, alias Abu Faraj, was killed in the fighting that erupted after security forces raided a militant hideout in the Kabal area of the valley. One soldier was wounded while 11 militants including Abu Faraj was killed, military spokesman Major Mushtaq Ahmed said. Abu Faraj was a close associate of Fazlullah, the Taliban leader in Swat who told the BBC last month he fled to Afghanistan and would launch attacks against the Pakistani army from there. Four militants were killed in clashes elsewhere in the valley, a security official said. Pakistani security forces killed more than 2,000 fighters in Swat, about 120 km (80 miles) northwest of Islamabad, in the offensive, according to the Army. There has been no independent verification of that casualty estimate.