Taliban Launch Massive Attack Against A Pakistani Army Base

Afghan Militants Cross Into Pakistan In Bold Attack -- L.A. Times

Officials say hundreds of Taliban insurgents traversed the rugged border and attacked a Pakistani military camp. At least 40 militants and six Pakistani soldiers were killed.


Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan -- Hundreds of militants crossed over from Afghanistan to attack a Pakistani military outpost Sunday, officials said, in an illustration of the merging of the Taliban insurgency on the two sides of the border.

The attack pointed up the growing boldness of militants in the lawless tribal areas abutting Afghanistan as Pakistan has diverted some forces to the frontier with India.

While stepping up their campaign against government troops, the insurgents also employ methods of baroque cruelty to intimidate civilians in the tribal areas. Hospital authorities in Khar, the main town in the Bajaur region, said over the weekend that militants had chopped off the ears of five captured members of a local committee organized to keep the Taliban out of town.

In the confrontation in Mohmand, a neighboring district to Bajaur, officials said at least 40 militants and six soldiers were killed in fighting near a military camp close to the Afghan frontier. As many as 600 fighters massed for the predawn assault, attacking the remote outpost with rockets and mortars, according to authorities and news reports.

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More News On The Attack

Pakistani Forces Kill 40 Taliban in Battle -- Wall Street Journal
Pakistan Says 40 Militants, 6 Soldiers Killed in Attack in Northwest -- VOA
Pakistan Border Clash 'Kills 46' -- BBC News
46 Die in Taliban Attack on Pakistani Troops -- New York Times
Afghan rebels strike Pakistan military camp -- Boston.com
600 fighters attack troops -- News24