Suicide bombing kills 12 Pakistan soldiers

ISLAMABAD — 

Authorities successful northwestern Pakistan said Wednesday that militants overnight launched a weapon and termination weaponry onslaught against a subject outpost, sidesplitting astatine slightest 12 troops and injuring respective others.

The deadly battle took spot successful the militancy-hit Bannu territory successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan.

The connection reported that Pakistani information forces successful the ensuing gunfight killed six assailants and “effectively” blocked their effort to participate the post, prompting a termination bomber to ram an explosive-laden conveyance into the facility.

The detonation caused the illness of a information of “the perimeter partition and damaged the adjoining infrastructure,” resulting successful fatalities, the subject said.

“Sanitization cognition is being conducted successful the area, and the perpetrators of this heinous enactment volition beryllium brought to justice,” the connection added. It did not stock further details.

Local information sources person confirmed that astatine slightest six troops besides sustained injuries, with 2 of them successful “critical” condition.

The subject connection attributed the onslaught to “Khwarij,” a word the authorities uses for militants linked to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The outlawed radical often targets service and constabulary forces successful the province’s districts adjacent oregon connected the Afghan border.

Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a militant enactment affiliated with the TTP, claimed work for the Tuesday nighttime raid successful Bannu.

Pakistan says that TTP, which the United Nations lists arsenic a planetary violent organization, is orchestrating the deadly unit from sanctuaries successful Afghanistan.

Islamabad has persistently urged the Islamist Taliban authorities successful Kabul, which is not recognized by immoderate country, to forestall TTP and different anti-Pakistan groups from utilizing Afghan ungraded for cross-border terrorism.

Taliban authorities successful Afghanistan contradict the allegations, saying nary overseas militant groups are contiguous successful the country.

Pakistani information forces are besides battling taste separatists successful the country's largest but sparsely populated province, Balochistan successful the southwest.

Resurgent militant violence, chiefly affecting the 2 provinces, has claimed the lives of much than 1,100 Pakistanis, galore of them information forces, truthful acold this year, according to the Islamabad-based autarkic Center for Research and Security Studies.

The surge successful attacks successful earthy resources-rich Balochistan prompted Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif connected Tuesday to o.k. a caller subject violative against separatists successful the province, which borders Afghanistan and is location to China-funded large infrastructure improvement projects.

The authoritative announcement did not accidental erstwhile the subject violative would beryllium launched, nor did it study different details.