Military says a high-ranking officer amongst these killed because the army clashes with rebels in two incidents.
Six Pakistani troopers and at the least eight rebels have been killed in two clashes within the restive northwest, the army says.
The army’s media wing mentioned on Saturday that Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Ali Shoukat was among the many six troopers killed in in a single day preventing within the North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province together with six rebels.
“Safety forces of Pakistan are decided to wipe out the menace of terrorism, and such sacrifices of our courageous troopers additional strengthen our resolve,” Inter-Companies Public Relations mentioned.
The military mentioned that in a separate operation, it killed two rebels in Swat, one other district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. One in every of them was mentioned to have been concerned in an assault on a convoy of international ambassadors within the space this month.
The Ministry of Inside reported that in 2023 alone, 930 individuals, primarily safety personnel, misplaced their lives to “acts of terrorism” and about 2,000 have been injured.
In March, an armed group attacked a army put up in North Waziristan utilizing a automobile laden with explosives in addition to suicide vests, killing seven safety drive members.
North Waziristan has lengthy served as a base for Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, often known as the Pakistan Taliban, and different teams. The military mentioned a number of years in the past that it had cleared the area of insurgent teams. Occasional assaults have continued, nevertheless, raising concerns that the Pakistan Taliban are regrouping within the space.
The Pakistan Taliban is a separate group from Afghanistan’s Taliban, however the two are allies.
The Afghan Taliban seized energy in Afghanistan for a second time in 2021 as the US and different NATO forces have been within the ultimate phases of their pullout from the nation.
Since then, the Pakistan Taliban have stepped up assaults on safety forces, particularly within the northwest.
