PESHAWAR - Afghan militants on Sunday attacked a military convoy in Upper Dir, killing six Pakistani soldiers and wounding several others, reported private TV channels, quoting their sources.
Afghan militants ambushed the Pakistani convoy in Upper Dir, near Afghan border, killing at least six soldiers, while several others were also reported missing after the attack.
The sources further said that the security forces retaliated and killed 11 Afghan militants.
Meanwhile, Advisor to PM on Interior Rehman Malik has lodged a protest with Afghan government, maintaining that the authorities in Kabul were not taking any steps to stop the cross-border attacks into Pakistan. He ordered Interior Secretary to contact his Afghan counterpart on this issue.
It is to be mentioned here that militants from Afghanistan have attacked several times on the checkposts of Upper Dir.
The surge in cross-border attacks came amid tensions with the United States over Nato route closure. There were reports in the media that the US military and intelligence officials are so frustrated with Pakistan’s failure to stop local militant groups from attacking Americans in Afghanistan that they have considered launching secret joint US-Afghan commando raids into Pakistan.
But the idea, which US officials say comes up every couple of months, has been consistently rejected because the White House believes the chance of successfully rooting out the deadly Haqqani network would not be worth the intense diplomatic blowback from Pakistan that inevitably would ensue.