TTP Strike on Pakistan Border - Many dead

15 militants and an army soldier were killed on Saturday after an ambush on a border post in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal region.

As per statement of a senior army official "Approximately 200 Taliban militants from across the border assaulted a group of Pakistani posts and not less than 16 militants were killed in the brutal fighting,".

The attack occurred around midnight (10am AEST) in the Bajaur tribal district nearby Afghanistan.

The official confirmed that, "One soldier accepted martyrdom and two other soldiers were injured seriously,".

An Afghan man who was injured 
during an attack by the Taliban

The official further said that, "The activists of TTP Bajaur and Swat chapters had regrouped in Ghund town of Afghanistan and launched the assault from there,".

Another military official verified the assault and casualties. Bajaur is one of seven semi-autonomous tribal regions affected by the insurgency.

Islamabad filed a protest over the invasion with Afghanistan's deputy ambassador, the Pakistan foreign ministry said in a statement issued on Saturday, and the Pakistani ambassador in Kabul brought up the matter with the Afghan foreign ministry. The statement stated that "To repulse the terrorist attack, Pakistani soldiers answered with artillery and aviation aid. Any claims about shelling on Afghan citizens within Afghanistan are incorrect,".

Due to the fact that the TTP rose up against the Pakistani state in 2007, over 6800 people have been killed in blast and gun attacks around Pakistan.

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Hazards continue to originate from Pak-Afghan Border

Even as the US President Barack Obama declared the total withdrawal of his soldiers from Afghanistan by the end of 2016, senior current administration officials have admitted that there continues to be threats coming from Afghan and Pakistan Border. “The risk from al Qaeda's core command in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been considerably resolved through the efforts to take apart the Al Qaida command in that part of the world. That does not indicate that there are no remnants of Al Qaida. Obviously, there continue to be risks originating from Afghanistan and Pakistan,” a senior Government official of U. S., said.

It also indicates that we're going to teach Afghan National Security Forces to assist us in mitigating that risk, the senior government official told journalists. In Afghanistan, the official mentioned that the USA feels that the long-term remedy towards Afghan security was not US forces. “It is Afghan forces; and that we've educated and equipped an Afghan National Security Force that wants to be responsible for securing their country; that this has never been a circumstance where the United States was signing on to provide security in Afghanistan consistently".

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Pakistan Raises Concern over US Afghan Offensive

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Pakistan raised concern Wednesday with visiting U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke over a U.S.-led offensive in neighboring southern Afghanistan that Islamabad fears could send Taliban fighters across the border.

Pakistan constantly demand for “monitoring system” on Afghan border, it was become more essential in the start of this month when raid of Pak Army on a group of activist who crossing the Pakistan border from Afghanistan carrying with them rocket launchers and other weapons.

US Army Chief Mike Mullen also expressed his worries to the Senate committee about this issue, although Pakistan is monitoring its Baluchistan area bordering Afghanistan and increase the number of troops in that region but still the chances of insurgency from there could not ignore.

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