Seven Pakistani soldiers have lost their lives today including an officer in two different attacks near the Pak-Afghan border.At least seven Pakistani army and paramilitary troops were killed and six others injured in two separate incidents in the country’s southwest and northwest on Wednesday, the military said.
Some four paramilitary troops were killed and six injured in the Zhob district of southwestern Balochistan while fencing the border with the Afghan province of Zabul.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed four attacks against the Pakistani military in the last 48 hours near the Afghanistan Pakistan border in the following four areas:
1) Bajaur
2) Dir
3) North Waziristan
4) Baluchistan
All attacks are confirmed by media and local sources, causing 12 fatalities to the army.
In the last two days, TTP has claimed 4 attacks from Bajour to Balochistan killing 12 security personnel.
Tehrik-i-Taliban in Pakistan, alternatively referred to as the Pakistani Taliban or TTP in short, is a terrorist armed group that is an umbrella organization of various militant groups based along the Afghan–Pakistani border. Most Taliban groups in Pakistan coalesce under the TTP.
Terrorists from across Afghanistan ambushed FC (Frontier Corps) troops moving for fencing. Four FC soldiers embraced shahadat (martyrdom), while six got injured
said a statement by ISPR, the military’s media wing.
The rise in the aggressiveness of TTP is proportionate to the ascendency of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The spillover is proof of the myopic policies of the Taliban’s Pakistani mentors.
The TTP is the bargaining card in the hands of the Taliban against the Pak army. Every time the Pak army applies pressure on the Taliban, TTP attacks increase. How will Pakistani terrorist sympathiser the Pakistan Army handle the Taliban at this stage is the question.
North Waziristan – once dubbed the heartland of militancy – is one of seven former semi-autonomous tribal regions in Pakistan where the army has conducted a series of operations since 2014 to eliminate the TTP.
More than 5,000 suspected militants and over 700 soldiers have been killed in aerial strikes, clashes, and landmine blasts over the past six years. The figures, however, could not be independently verified as media access to the former tribal areas is restricted.
