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India-Pakistan
Cross-Border Attack Kills Four Soldiers In Mohmand
2012-04-03
PESHAWAR: The Frontier Corps (FC) said on Monday that around 100 Afghan Taliban attacked a border post near Sahala in Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Agency and killed four soldiers.

The attack occurred in Olai, part of the Mohmand Agency, the FC said, adding that the soldiers retaliated the fire, killing 15 terrorists. The area is cut off to journalists and aid workers and it was not possible to confirm the corpse count independently.

A local official said, "Terrorists attacked an FC checkpost in Baizai on Sunday night, which triggered a firefight, killing four troops and 15 terrorists." Five troops were also injured and faceless myrmidons had infiltrated Pakistain from Afghanistan's northeastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
, he said.
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