Militants ambush law enforcement patrol, get rid of 6 in NW Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Armed militants ambushed and killed all 6 folks in a law enforcement auto in northwestern Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.
Law enforcement officer Rab Nawaz Khan said the early morning assault in the Dadewala region of Lakki Marwat district came all through a routine patrol in a suburban place. The attackers escaped on motorcycles.
No team instantly claimed responsibility, but Islamic militants run in the region had been associated in preceding assaults on stability forces.
Khan reported reinforcement has achieved the scene, moved the bodies to a hospital and begun an investigation to uncover the perpetrators.
Northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan borders Afghanistan and has viewed Islamic militants largely recognized as Pakistani Taliban function in the space for lots of yrs.
The Pakistani Taliban are a different group, but they are allies of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan much more than a yr back as U.S. and NATO troops ended up in the remaining phases of their pullout.
The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has emboldened the Pakistani Taliban, who are formally acknowledged as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. Despite the fact that the Taliban in Afghanistan have inspired Islamabad and the TTP to get to a peace agreement by dialogue, talks amid a ceasefire between the two sides that started off in Might proved futile.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Armed militants ambushed and killed all 6 folks in a law enforcement auto in northwestern Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.
Law enforcement officer Rab Nawaz Khan said the early morning assault in the Dadewala region of Lakki Marwat district came all through a routine patrol in a suburban place. The attackers escaped on motorcycles.
No team instantly claimed responsibility, but Islamic militants run in the region had been associated in preceding assaults on stability forces.
Khan reported reinforcement has achieved the scene, moved the bodies to a hospital and begun an investigation to uncover the perpetrators.
Northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan borders Afghanistan and has viewed Islamic militants largely recognized as Pakistani Taliban function in the space for lots of yrs.
The Pakistani Taliban are a different group, but they are allies of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan much more than a yr back as U.S. and NATO troops ended up in the remaining phases of their pullout.
The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has emboldened the Pakistani Taliban, who are formally acknowledged as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. Despite the fact that the Taliban in Afghanistan have inspired Islamabad and the TTP to get to a peace agreement by dialogue, talks amid a ceasefire between the two sides that started off in Might proved futile.