Security forces repulse attack on check post, kill five terrorists
The incident occurred in Karappa area of Tehsil Pindya.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk) – At least five terrorists were killed when security forces repulsed an attack by on a check post at Karappa area of Tehsil Pindyali today (Saturday).
Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the terrorists. Later, security forces launched search operation in the area.
Earlier on Thursday, at least nine Khasadar paramilitary personnel were martyred in two separate attacks in the volatile northwestern region.
Two members of the Khasadar paramilitary force on guard duty were shot dead, followed by an attack on a village checkpost in Akar that killed seven.
The Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Since 2007, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants have been waging an insurgency in the area around Mohmand, about 177 km (110 miles) from Islamabad, the capital.
Several military operations, the most recent begun in 2014, have reduced the number of large-scale militant attacks in the region, but security forces and civilians are occasionally still targeted.
Last month, militants killed at least 20 people, mostly students, at the Bacha Khan University, about 48 km (30 miles) distant from the sites of Thursday’s attacks.
Pakistan’s northwestern Mohmand region has been the traditional home of ethnic groups such as the Mohmand, Musa Khail and Shalizi.
