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The Pakistani Army on Friday said that its security forces have killed 30 terrorists involved in the attack on a military convoy near the Afghan border in Orakzai district on October 7.
The terrorists belonged to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a group that seeks to overthrow the government in Islamabad and replace it with a strict Islamic-led system of governance. TTP has already claimed responsibility for the Orakzai attack.
Pakistan claims that the TTP uses Afghanistan to train its members and plot attacks against the country, a charge that Kabul has denied.
What happened in the Orakzai attack?
Earlier this week, TTP terrorists ambushed a Pakistani military convoy, killing nine soldiers and two officers.
Roadside bombs hit the convoy before a large number of militants launched a gun attack in the northwestern districts of Kurram, five Pakistan security officials told Reuters.
Kabul attack
Meanwhile, Kabul on Friday was reportedly rocked by two powerful explosions and subsequent automatic gunfire amid tension on the Afghan-Pakistan border. According to information obtained by CNN-News18, multiple witnesses reported the sound of a fighter jet over the city’s airspace.
Top intelligence sources told CNN News18 that the incident appeared to be a targeted aerial strike aimed at Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Noor Wali Mehsud, operating from a TTP and al-Qaeda safehouse in eastern Kabul. The sources went on to confirm that the strike successfully targeted the compound.
Voice messages accessed by the news outlet suggested that Noor Wali Mehsud is safe and in Pakistan. However, CNN-News18 has learnt that his son was killed in the attack. The sources revealed that the act that the target was a high-value Pakistani militant, which suggests a covert, cross-border operation.
With inputs from agencies