Pakistani soldier killed in firing from across Afghan border: army
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ISLAMABAD, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- A Pakistani soldier was killed in firing from across the Afghan border, the Pakistani army said.
An army statement said on Wednesday night that terrorists fired on a Pakistani military post from the Afghan side of the border in Mohmand tribal district in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Pakistani troops responded promptly and during exchange of fire, a soldier of the paramilitary Frontier Corps was killed, the statement from the army's media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations, said.
The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement sent to the local media.
Pakistani security officials have said that militants have crossed the border into Afghanistan as a result of major operations in the country's tribal regions.
Pakistan and Afghanistan share a nearly 2,600-km border, mostly porous. Pakistan is fencing the border with Afghanistan to block the movement of the militants.
Mohmand, bordering Afghanistan's Kunar province, is one of Pakistan's seven tribal districts, which had once been under the influence of the Taliban. Enditem
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