Terrorist attacks in Pakistan/ 8 soldiers were killed and 7 policemen were kidnapped

reported by According to this official, who did not want to be named, eight soldiers and nine militants were killed during the clashes between security forces and militants in Tirah area. The responsibility of this attack has been taken by “Tehrik Taliban Pakistan”.

Also, a senior police official, who also did not want to be named, said that in a separate attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, “seven police officers were kidnapped from a police station.”

He added that the attackers also confiscated weapons belonging to police forces. Pakistan has seen an increase in attacks by the “Tehrik Taliban Pakistan” in the inflamed border areas with Afghanistan. This group also killed 10 police officers on October 25. Attacks by extremist or separatist groups on Pakistani security forces occur frequently throughout the country of 240 million people.

On Saturday, seven security forces were killed by a separatist group in the province of Balochistan located in the southwest of Pakistan. A week before that, the terrorist attack of the same group on the Quetta train station killed 26 people, including 14 security forces.