{"id":30691,"date":"2017-11-13T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30691"},"modified":"2017-11-13T16:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:57:31","slug":"pakistan-army-captain-sepoy-martyred-in-cross-border-attack-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30691","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Army captain, sepoy martyred in cross-border attack from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RAWALPINDI Nov 13 (TNS):<\/strong> A cross-border attack by terrorist from Afghanistan in Pakistan&#8217;s Bajaur Agency led to the martyrdom of two Pakistan Army troops, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Junaid Hafeez and Sepoy Reham were martyred in the attack on a border post of the Pakistan Army.<\/p>\n<p>At least eight terrorists were also killed in the attack and others were injured in retaliatory fire from the Army.<\/p>\n<p>The Army&#8217;s media wing added that remaining terrorists\u00a0withdrew across the border after sustaining casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks originating from Afghanistan by militants have become more regular as militants have established sanctuaries in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov 9, an Army sepoy, Mohammad Ilyas, was martyred during an exchange of fire with terrorists in Khyber Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorists had opened fire at multiple places at the newly established Pakistani posts in Rajgal Valley, exploiting the absence of any control in Afghan border areas.<\/p>\n<p>On October 3, another soldier had embraced martyrdom after terrorists fired from across the Afghan border on a border post.<\/p>\n<p>The incident had occurred at the recently cleared area around Mustil pass, an important passage from Afghanistan into Rajgal, in Khyber Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The martyred soldier was identified by ISPR as Naib Subedar Azher Ali.<\/p>\n<p>The army in August announced the successful completion of Operation Khyber-4 in the Rajgal area of Khyber Agency.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference, Director-General ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor had announced that 253 square kilometers had been cleared of militants&#8217; presence.<\/p>\n<p>In order to create a more permanent security presence in the volatile area, the army also set up 91 check posts in Rajgal Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Khyber-4 was launched to stop infiltration of terrorists from across the Pak-Afghan border.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI Nov 13 (TNS): A cross-border attack by terrorist from Afghanistan in Pakistan&#8217;s Bajaur Agency led to the martyrdom of two Pakistan Army troops, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Monday. Captain Junaid Hafeez and Sepoy Reham were martyred in the attack on a border post of the Pakistan Army. At least eight terrorists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,51],"tags":[589,151],"class_list":["post-30691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-rawalpindi","tag-national","tag-rawalpindi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30693,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30691\/revisions\/30693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}