PESHAWAR: Seven people including a policeman and paramilitary soldier were killed in two separate incidents when Pakistani security forces hit militant hideouts in the restive northwest Saturday morning, officials said. In the first incident, police and paramilitary soldiers raided suspected hideouts in Shabqadar, a town around 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of Peshawar.
Spokesman of the Jamatul Ahrar faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Ehsanullah Ehsan, claimed responsibility for the school attack. “We will continue to target security forces and the police in the future too,” he told AFP in a telephone call from an undisclosed location.In another incident, five members of the TTP including a local commander were killed. A US drone strike killed at least five militants in Pakistan’s restive tribal region near the Afghan border on Saturday, security officials said, warning that the death toll was expected to rise.
The strike occurred in North Waziristan, one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal districts bordering Afghanistan, which is seen as a hub for Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, according to a news agency.
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