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India-Pakistan
Cross border attack kills FC soldier in Bajaur
2014-08-02
[DAWN] One Frontier Corps (FC) soldier has been killed in a cross border attack at Pakistain-Afghanistan border
...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons...
in Mamond Tehsil of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
, military officials said on Friday.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has confirmed that the suspected hard boyz from across the border opened fire on the security forces in Kaghi Pass area of Mamond Tehsil, killing one FC soldier.

The forces also returned the fire, but the casualty figure on the krazed killers' side could not be confirmed, said the ISPR statement.

This is the second incident of cross border attacks in the last few days. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
this information could not be independently verified as the access of media is severely restricted in the region.

Pakistain had summoned a senior Afghan diplomat on Wednesday and registered a protest over the skirmish during which Pak security forces foiled a krazed killer attack on a checkpost on the Pak-Afghan border.

Military sources were quoted as saying that six attackers were killed and nine maimed during a cross-border krazed killer assault in Lower Dir region.
Posted by:Fred

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