As tensions between the two nations increased, the military announced on Monday that 20 Pakistani Taliban fighters were killed by Pakistani security forces during raids on hideouts in the northwest region bordering Afghanistan.
At least two of the attackers were killed in a gunfight that broke out after militants, including a suicide bomber, attempted to raid a cadet college in Wana, a city in the northwest South Waziristan province, according to the military.
Over the weekend, a third round of peace negotiations in Istanbul failed, and Pakistan and Afghanistan blamed each other. Following horrific border skirmishes that claimed the lives of scores of military and civilians on both sides, the negotiations, which were mediated by Qatar and Turkey, started last month.
The dead militants were referred to by Pakistan’s military as “Khwarij,” a term the government uses to refer to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which is classified as a terrorist group by the UN and the US.
According to the report, eight militants were slain on Sunday in North Waziristan, a former TTP stronghold in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and twelve more were slain in a different raid in the northwest’s Dara Adam Khel area.
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