Army says 11 soldiers, including two officers, killed in major gunbattle in northwest Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Nineteen militants and eleven security personnel, including a lieutenant colonel and a major, were killed in an overnight gunbattle in Pakistan’s northwestern Orakzai district, the military’s media wing said on Wednesday, in one of the deadliest clashes of this year. Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant violence in recent years, with proscribed groups such as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) targeting security forces and civilians in the western provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, which border Afghanistan.

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