28/6/2025–|Last update: 14:21 (Mecca time)
At least 16 soldiers were killed in an attack he adopted The Taliban Movement Pakistan In northwestern Pakistan, more than 20 people were wounded, including civilians, according to government and security officials to the French Press Agency.
A government official in a northern area said Waziristan He asked not to be identified, that “a suicide bomber hit his car bomb, a convoy of soldiers” in the Khyber Petmongua region, located on the border with Afghanistan, and reported that 16 soldiers were killed after a first death talked about 13 dead.
A policeman in the area said, “The explosion also caused the collapse of the roof of two houses and the injury of 6 children.”
Hafez Gul Baador Group, a Taliban movement, claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Pakistan has registered an escalation of violence in its areas bordering Afghanistan since the return Militant To power in Kabul in 2021, and accused Islamabad of its western neighbor of allowing its lands to be used to launch attacks against Pakistan, which is denied by Afghanistan.
About 290 people, most of them security officials, have been killed in attacks since the beginning of the year by armed groups fighting the government in both Khyber Pthavmuhua and Baluchistan, according to a statistics of the French Press Agency.
On the other hand, the Pakistani Ministry of Interior gave the green light To deploy the army worldwide to enhance security during the sensitive month of Muharram.
In the month of Muharram every year, Pakistan is deploying thousands of law enforcement forces to ensure security and to prevent sectarian violence during the ceremony of Ashura celebrations that the Shiites revive in the country.
The sectarian violence in Pakistan has resulted in thousands of deaths in recent years, the most bloody of which was in 2012, killing 400 Shiites.