Some 50 Taliban fighters attacked Pak troops during a search operation in Jogi village of central
Kurram tribal district...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
late Tuesday, officials said.
"Six soldiers were killed and four injured in the clash. Troops repelled the attack and killed 17 Death Eaters," Sher Bahadar Khan, a local government official in Kurram told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The snuffies were Pak Taliban, he said.
A bigwig of Pakistain's paramilitary Frontier Corps confirmed the attack, and the casualties, and added that troops had taken control of the area.
Independent confirmation of the corpse count was not immediately possible as the lawless tribal region is barred for journalists .
In July last year, Pakistain launched an offensive in Kurram district to evict Islamist Death Eaters.
Troops are still engaged in a search and cordon operation after clearing most of the area.
Pakistain's seven tribal districts bordering Afghanistan are rife with a homegrown insurgency, and are also strongholds of the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked Death Eaters.