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India-Pakistan
12 militants killed after raid on post
2016-04-09
[DAWN] Twelve suspected holy warriors were killed and several others injured in a gunbattle with security forces in Shabek area of Kurram tribal region on Thursday.

Talking to Dawn, a local official said that the clash near the Afghan border in lower tehsil of Kurram erupted after the holy warriors stormed a checkpost of Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations....
He claimed that 12 attackers were killed and several others suffered injuries.

The attack was repulsed by soldiers who took the bodies of the holy warriors in jug.

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
when a security bigshot was contacted in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
for details, he expressed ignorance about the incident.

Later, security forces mounted a search for suspects in the area.

Security has been beefed up in Kurram Agency
...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...
after attacks on checkposts from across the border in Afghanistan. The authorities have also cautioned local tribes to remain vigilant.
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