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India-Pakistan
3 FC soldiers martyred, 5 terrorists killed in cross-border attack in Mohmand Agency
2017-12-23
[DAWN] Three Frontiers Corps personnel were martyred when suspected holy warriors opened fire on their team from across the Pak-Afghan border in Mohmand Agency
... 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 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
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
and Kunar...

on Friday, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said.

The troops were targeted when they busy in the construction of a new border post at Shunkrai area of Mohmand tribal region near the border with Afghanistan.

A protection party that was accompanying the troops responded to the attack, killing five suspected holy warriors and leaving as many injured, the ISPR said.

The martyred soldiers were identified as Havaldar Muneer Khan, Sepoy Haq Nawaz Khan and Lance Naik Irshad Hussain.

The fleeing holy warriors could be seen carrying with them the bodies of killed snuffies and those injured in retaliatory fire, the ISPR claimed.

The military's media wing alleged that through such attacks, Pakistain is "paying [the] price" of Afghan cops' lack of "capacity" and ungoverned spaces on Afghan side of the border.

The incident comes less than a fortnight after two Pakistain Army soldiers were martyred when armed snuffies opened fire on their vehicle in North Wazoo.

Posted by:Fred

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