The convoy came under attack near Razmak town, more than 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of Miranshah, the main town in the North
Wazoo tribal district along the Afghan border, officials said."The convoy was moving from one area to another when Talibs attacked it, killing five soldiers and wounding three others," a security official in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar told AFP.
Another security official in Miranshah confirmed the incident, saying forces of Evil were armed with rockets and automatic weapons.
"They also hurled grenades in the attack," the official said.
Troops retaliated immediately with small and heavy weapons but there was no report of Taliban casualties, he added.
North Waziristan is the main target of US drone strikes and the most notorious bastion of Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt.
Washington has called the northwest region the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and US officials are increasing pressure on Islamabad to launch an all-out military offensive in North Waziristan.
Despite Pakistain coming under huge pressure after the late Osama bin Laden
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was killed by US troops in a garrison city on May 2, Islamabad insists any operation in North Waziristan would be of Pakistain's choosing.
More than 4,700 people have been killed across Pakistain in attacks blamed on Taliban and other orc networks based in the tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.