Qatar- Pakistan Security Forces Kill Five Militants

2/21/2016 3:00:26 AM

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Islamabad February 20 (QNA) - Pakistani security forces killed at least five militants in a gunfight in a restive northwestern tribal district bordering Afghanistan on Saturday the military said.
Troops encountered the militants near Ghalanai the main town of Mohmand one of the seven tribal border districts which have been home to Al-Qaeda and Taliban-led militants.
Troops engaged the militants as they were planning a "terrorist activity" the military statement said without elaborating adding that the bodies were handed over to the local administration.
The clash comes after Taliban militants killed at least nine policemen in two almost simultaneous attacks in Mohmand on Wednesday.
They killed seven police in an ambush on a checkpoint in Pandyali area of Mohmand and shot dead two more who were guarding a solar-powered tube well in Michni area.
Pakistan's army stepped up its offensive in the region after the Taliban's massacre of 153 people mostly children in Peshawar in December 2014 and killed or pushed hundreds of militants to Afghanistan. (QNA)

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