“The militants opened fire at the convoy when it passed from the area and killed four security persons,” Rehan Gul Khattak, a local administration official said. – File Photo by Reuters
The Taliban have struck blood on the Pakistani military again - this time in an ambush as a Pakistani army convoy was in the Khyber area of the northwest...four Pakistani troops were killed in the attack while apparently the Taliban took no casualties.
It seems to me that the Pakistani military is just putting off what will eventually have to be another full scale operation across northwestern Pakistan - all of the gutting they did a year and a half ago has been filled back in by the scumbags and a couple of agencies are probably worse now than they were. At the same time, the number of Taliban and al Qaeda attacks inside of Pakistan seems to have dropped over the past few months - I attribute that to more operations going on in Afghanistan.
The article is from DAWN.
Four soldiers killed by militants in Khyber
PESHAWAR: Four Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed on Monday when militants attacked their convoy in the northwestern tribal district of Khyber, officials said.
The attackers opened fire on the paramilitary convoy in the Nala area, five kilometres (three miles) west of Bara, the district headquarters of Khyber.
“The militants opened fire at the convoy when it passed from the area and killed four security persons,” Rehan Gul Khattak, a local administration official told AFP.
“The security forces fired back but the militants managed to escape,” he said.
Some 18,000 people fled their homes in Khyber last month amid fears of a fresh onslaught of fighting between the army and Islamist militants tied to the Pakistani Taliban.
In the neighbouring district of Mohmand, security forces said they killed four militants and wounded five others who were later arrested, as the group tried to enter Pakistan from across the unmarked border in Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s seven tribal districts near the Afghan border are rife with homegrown insurgents and are strongholds of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.
“Those who have been arrested were injured during the exchange of fire as the militants attacked Pakistan forces and they retaliated,” said Maqsood Hassan, a local administration official.
Security officials in Peshawar confirmed both incidents.
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