Violence claims over 70 in NW Pakistan

In the latest incident, at least 22 people were killed on Friday when a blast occurred near a mosque in Khyber Agency.

There were no more details available in connection with the attack.

Earlier in the day, militants attacked a hill-top military position in the same agency.

The ensuing clashes left more than 10 Pakistani soldiers dead and killed at least 23 militants in the remote Tirah Valley near the Afghan border.

Moreover, Pakistani fighter jets bombed two militant hideouts in the Orakzai tribal region, killing 15 militants and wounding 12 more.

In a separate incident, unknown armed men on motorbikes gunned down an intelligence official in an outskirt Peshawar, the provincial capital of troubled Khyber Pakhtoon Khawa province.

The Pakistani military has launched a series of offensives against pro-Taliban militants, including Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in the country’s semiautonomous tribal region over the past few years.

Despite the Pakistani government’s operations against the TTP and its associated groups, they remain holed up across various parts of the country, where they carry out their terrorists attacks.

Over 35,000 Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Islamabad entered into an alliance with the US in Washington’s so-called ‘war on terror.’

MRS/JR

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