PESHAWAR: Security forces personnel on Friday repulsed two attacks on security checkposts in Mohmand and Bajaur agencies by suspected militants from across the Pak-Afghan border, security sources said.
The militants opened fire on a security checkpost in the Sheikh Baba area of Mohmand and on the Nawa Pass security post in Bajaur agency, sources said. No casualties were reported on either side of the border. The Jamaatul Ahrar claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Pakistan has long accused Afghanistan of sheltering militants inside its territory, a charge Afghanistan denies.
Army Chief General Raheel Sharif, in a meeting with US officials at GHQ, in June this year, raised the demand of targeting Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) hideouts in Afghanistan.
