ISLAMABAD – Four FC soldiers and one PAF soldier were injured incross-border terrorist attacks from Afghanistan, the Inter-Services PublicRelations said in a statement.
Security forces responded effectively and repulsed physical attacks, as aresult of which six terrorists were killed and several injured.
Terrorists from across the border carried fire raids and physical attackson Pakistan’s border posts and border fencing parties in Bajaur in KhyberPakhtunkhwa and Qamar Din Qarez in Balochistan.
Taking advantage of ungoverned spaces and facilitation inside Afghanistan,terrorists are resorting to such attacks to prevent fencing andconstruction of border posts, the ISPR said.
Fencing of Pak-Afghan border and construction of border forts will continueirrespective of the challenges posed by inimical forces, and in order toconsolidate the gains of successful kinetic operations against terrorism,the ISPR statement added.