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Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Hundreds of Afghan-based terrorists launch raid into PakistanKHAR: At least 300 terrorists crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan and attacked a Pakistani checkpost, government and intelligence officials said on Monday, the sixth cross-border attack in a month that has raised tensions between the neighbours.
One Pakistani soldier was killed and another wounded in the late Sunday attack in the tribal region of Bajaur, intelligence officials said. At least four terrorists were also killed in the fighting, they said. “Heavy firing was going on, and it lasted for several hours,” tribal elder Juma Gul said. One government official said the terrorists were driven back into Afghanistan by Pakistani security forces. There were no civilian casualties, he added. A military spokesman in Rawalpindi, however, said no terrorists have crossed the border, but instead fired rockets into Pakistan, killing one Pakistani soldier. Sunday’s raid follows allegations by the Afghan Foreign Ministry that a number of rockets fired from Pakistan into the Afghan province of Kunar had killed and injured Afghan civilians in recent months. reuters
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk