Peshawar, April 8 (NVI) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed to have killed at least 15 Pakistani soldiers in one attack and an unspecified several more in other assaults carried out over the last two days in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province as part of its ‘Operation Al-Khandaq’.
In a statement, the TTP said its cadres fought with the Pakistan Army for seven hours in the Pasuro area of Tui Khula in South Waziristan district on April 6.
In the gunfight, 15 military personnel were killed and several injured, said the statement issued by TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani.
He said the TTP lost one comrade Hidayat while another was injured in the encounter.
The TTP also attacked a military post in the Binshahi area of Jandul in Lower Dir district on the same day, in which there are reports of deaths and injuries, the spokesman said.
In the Miranshah in North Waziristan district, the Taliban attacked Gulab, a key member of the “notorious government army” and his companions yesterday, in which the targeted person and one of his companions were killed, he said. (NVI)
