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6 militants killed, 4 Pakistani soldiers injured in Pak-Afghan cross-
border attacks: Pak army

ISLAMABAD, June 3, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – At least six militants were killed
and several others injured as Pakistani forces retaliated cross-border
attacks by militants from the Afghan side on Sunday, the Pakistani army said
in a statement here.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of Pakistan
army, said that the militants attacked Pakistani security personnel who were
busy in border fencing in the country’ southwest Balochistan and northwest
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.

“Taking advantage of ungoverned spaces and facilitation inside Afghanistan,
terrorists resorting to such attacks to prevent fencing and construction of
border posts,” said the statement.

Five soldiers including four from paramilitary troops Frontier Corps and
one from Pakistan air force sustained injuries in the attack, the statement
added.

Identities of the killed militants were not revealed.

Pakistan is investing heavily to construct a chain-link fence at its over
2,000-km-long border with Afghanistan, in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
provinces to restrict the penetration of militants into Pakistani territory
from Afghanistan.

The ISPR said that to consolidate the gains of successful kinetic
operations against terrorism by the country’s military, fencing of Pakistan-
Afghanistan border and construction of border forts will continue
irrespective of the challenges posed by inimical forces.

BSS/XINHUA/FI/ 1930 hrs