Pakistan army officials said today, March 16 (26th) that seven soldiers of the country were killed when six attackers attacked a security post.

The Pakistan Army, in a press release, said that the attack took place early Saturday morning in the Mir Ali area of ​​North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The news paper stated that “terrorists hit a vehicle full of explosives against a post and then several suicide attacks took place which caused the collapse of a part of the building” as a result of which five soldiers were killed.

According to the newspaper, a 39-year-old army lieutenant and a 23-year-old accused were killed in the exchange of fire.

According to the Pakistani army, all six attackers were killed in this battle, but they did not say which group the militants belonged to.

North Waziristan and other former tribal areas have long been known as centers of the Pakistani Taliban and other extremist groups. But in 2014, the Pakistan Army launched a massive military operation in the tribal areas and then claimed that it had cleared these areas of extremists.

Analysts say that there were already hard-line extremists in the tribal areas, but after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, they have become more daring.

An armed group called Jaish-ul-Farsan Muhammad, which was recently formed, claims that they attacked Pakistani soldiers.

Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack and expressed their condolences to the dead soldiers.

Earlier, the Pakistani Taliban movement claimed that these groups attacked the Pakistani army and security forces.

Islamabad says that the leaders of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are in Afghanistan and from there they are planning their attacks on the territory of Pakistan, but the Afghan Taliban says that they will not allow any group to use the territory of Afghanistan against any country. to use