Officials of the Pakistan Army today said that seven soldiers were killed when six attackers attacked a security post.

The Pakistan Army released a statement saying that the attack took place in the early hours of Saturday in the Mir Ali region of North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

It is stated in the statement that “terrorists crashed a vehicle loaded with explosives into a post, and then several suicide attacks were carried out, which led to the collapse of (a) part of a structure” as a result of which five soldiers were killed.

According to the statement, during the exchange of fire, a 39-year-old German and a 23-year-old Pakistani accused also lost their lives.

According to the Pakistan Army, all six attackers were also killed in this clash.

North Waziristan and other former tribal areas have long been considered strongholds of the Pakistani Taliban and other extremist groups. However, in 2014, the Pakistan Army launched a large-scale military operation in the tribal areas and then claimed that it had cleared these areas of extremists.

Analysts say that extremists already existed in the tribal areas, but after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, they have become bolder.

A newly established extremist group called Jaish al-Farsan Muhammad has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Islamabad says that the leaders of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and other terrorist groups are present in Afghanistan and plan their attacks from there and carry out their attacks in Pakistan. But the Afghan Taliban say that they will not allow any group to use the soil of Afghanistan against any child.