Pak-Afghan border attack: 3 FC troops martyred, 5 terrorists killed

ISPR says officials were busy constructing new border post when they were attacked

SHABQADAR: Three Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were martyred and five terrorists killed in a cross-border attack from Afghanistan on an under-construction post in Mohmand Agency on Friday, the army’s media wing said in a statement.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said, “These officials were busy in construction of the new border post in Shonkrai near Pak-Afghan border in Mohmand Agency [when they came under attack].”

The ISPR added, “The protection party responded … they killed five terrorists and injured many. Fleeing terrorists [were] seen carrying back dead bodies and [the] injured.”

It further stated, “Pakistan [is] paying [the] price for Afghan forces’ lack of capacity and ungoverned spaces.”

An official of the political administration said the bodies of the personnel were shifted to the FC headquarters and later to their homes for burial.

Pakistan shares its border with Afghan province of Kunar at Shonkrai, where according to some media reports, the Islamic State and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militants have hideouts from where they carry out attacks on Pakistani border posts in the area.

Pakistani officials have raised their concern with the Afghan government on these cross-border attacks several times.

Pakistani security forces are fencing the border with Afghanistan and constructing posts there to stop these attacks and infiltration of militants into Pakistan.

The fencing of the border in Mohmand and Bajaur agencies is going on for the past few months.

In another incident, unknown miscreants threw a hand grenade on a security forces post at Qayyum Abad Qandhro, Mohmand Agency last night, but no loss of property or human lives was reported in the attack.