Pakistan says militant attack on army post kills soldier

ISLAMABAD — Militants attacked an service station Friday successful Pakistan’s restive northwest, bordering Afghanistan, triggering an aggravated shootout that killed a soldier, the subject said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed work for the attack.

According to a subject statement, the predawn onslaught took spot successful Bannu, a territory successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It said troops returned fire, but it was unclear if the attackers suffered immoderate casualties.

In their assertion of responsibility, posted connected Twitter, the Pakistani Taliban did not supply further details.

Also Friday, Pakistani troops raided a militant hideout successful the northwestern Miran Shah town, sidesplitting a militant and arresting 2 suspects, a abstracted subject connection said.

Although militants often people information station and troops routinely transportation retired raids connected militant hideouts, the latest unit comes a time aft the Pakistani Taliban confirmed the sidesplitting implicit the play successful Afghanistan of the group’s erstwhile spokesman.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, oregon TTP arsenic the Pakistani Taliban are known, vowed to avenge his killing. The Pakistani Taliban are an umbrella radical and a abstracted enactment from the Afghan Taliban. In November, Pakistan announced a month-long cease-fire with the TTP. The radical has been down galore attacks connected information forces and civilians implicit the past 14 years.

The cease-fire ended connected Dec. 9 and since then, the radical has resumed attacks, emboldened successful portion by the Taliban takeover of neighboring Afghanistan.