Eight soldiers were killed and seven police officers kidnapped in separate attacks in northwest Pakistan, police and intelligence officials told AFP on Tuesday.
A Monday clash resulted in the deaths of “eight soldiers” and “nine militants” in the Tirah area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, an intelligence officer said on condition of anonymity.
The group killed 10 police officers on October 25.
Islamist or separatist attacks on Pakistan’s security forces are taking place elsewhere in the country of 240 million.
On Saturday, seven soldiers were killed by separatists in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, a week after a bombing by the same group killed 26 people, including 14 soldiers, at a train station in the provincial
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