The remote-controlled bomb planted on a roadside hit a patrol party leading a convoy of security forces at Boya village, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) west of Miranshah,
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatecentered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
the main town of troubled North
Wazoo tribal district."Two soldiers were martyred in the kaboom," a security official told AFP.
"The authorities have clamped a curfew on the main Miranshah-Datta Khel road and are carrying out a search operation," said the official, who requested anonymity.
A local intelligence official confirmed the attack and corpse count and said that he suspected the involvement of Talibs in the attack.
Pakistain has for years battled homegrown Islamic fascisti in the tribal belt that borders Afghanistan.
More than 3,000 soldiers have died but Pakistain has resisted US pressure to do more to eliminate havens used by Afghan cut-thoats.