Hundreds of Afghan-based militants launch raid into Pakistan
At least 300 militants crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan and attacked a Pakistani check-post, government and intelligence officials said on Monday, the sixth cross-border attack in a month that has raised tensions between the neighbors.
One Pakistani soldier was killed and another wounded in the late Sunday attack in the Pakistani tribal region of Bajaur, intelligence officials said. At least four militants were also killed in the fighting, they said.
Pakistan says 56 members of the security forces have been killed and 81 wounded in a series of militant attacks from Afghanistan over the past month.
Villagers from Kitkot, where the attack took place, said that militants used rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and AK-47 assault rifles.
One government official said the militants were driven back into Afghanistan by Pakistani security forces. There were no civilian casualties, he added.
A military spokesman in Rawalpindi, however, said no militants have crossed the border, but instead fired rockets into Pakistan, killing one Pakistani soldier.