Five Pakistani soldiers were killed when terrorists from inside Afghanistan across the international border opened fire on the troops, a military statement said.
The incident took place at the border area in Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations said in the statement on Sunday.
The Pakistani troops retaliated the attack “in a befitting manner”, and as per intelligence reports, the terrorists have suffered heavy losses, Xinhua news agency quoted the ISPR statement as saying.
“Pakistan strongly condemns the use of Afghan soil by terrorists for activities against Pakistan,” it added.
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Pakistan is now getting the payback of supporting the Taliban to topple the Ghani Govt. of Afghanistan. The 38th parallel is border of dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan since its very creation by the British. Britishers had chunked out a large part of Afghan territory and merged that with west Pakistan by creating the 38th parallel. Since then Afghans are at loggerheads with Pakistan. The terrorists (the Talibans) once supported by Pakistan are now stabbing the latter in its back.