ANIUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 06:06 PM IST
WANA , PAKISTAN - APRIL 11: A river valley cuts through the rugged terrain near Wana April 11, 2007 in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border. The Pakistani army said that a force of some 1,000 tribesman in the area drove out Uzbek militants allied with Al Qaeda from the area, in an operation they say could be a model for clearing foreign fighters out of all the tribal areas. Local tribesman had been sheltering hundreds of foreign militants after they fled Afghanistan when the U.S. toppled the Taliban regime in 2001. The Pakistani government has said that the tribesmen's efforts vindicate its policy of signing peace deals with the ethnic Pashtun clans of the region, despite criticism from Western allies. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) |
Peshawar: One security personnel has been killed and another sustained injuries in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Wana, a town in South Waziristan, in Pakistan. The Dawn reports that an IED planted on the roadside struck a security forces’ vehicle in Talai area of South Waziristan, killing one security official.The injured was taken to Combined Military Hospital Peshawar for treatment.
Security forces cordoned off the area after the explosion and started a search operation to apprehend suspects involved in the attack. Homemade roadside bombs are a major weapon of militants who attack government forces in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal districts. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
