Pakistani soldier killed in firing from across Afghan border: army
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ISLAMABAD, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- A Pakistani soldier has been killed in firing across the Afghan border, the Pakistani military said on Wednesday.
An army statement said that terrorists fired on a Pakistani army post from the Afghan side of the border in Bajaur tribal district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
A soldier was killed and another injured in the firing, the statement from the army's media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations said.
The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement sent to the local media.
Pakistani security officials have long been saying that militants have crossed the border into Afghanistan as a result of major operations in the country's tribal regions.
The Pakistani militants routinely attack the border posts from the Afghan side.
Pakistan and Afghanistan have a nearly 2,600-km border, mostly porous. Pakistan is fencing the border with Afghanistan to block the movement of the militants.
Bajaur, bordering Afghanistan's Kunar province, is one of Pakistan's seven tribal districts, which had once been a stronghold of the Taliban and other Pakistani militant groups.
Pakistan army had carried out a major offensive against the militants in Bajaur in 2008 and cleared the area of the armed groups. Enditem
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