A
security m
an was martyred an
d another injured in a cross-border firing from Afghanistion on a checkpost in Kurram, local sources said.
According to details, miscreants from Afghanistan’s Khost province targeted a picketing
party of Khataka Post some three kilometres south east of Bezo Sar, sources said.
Lance Naik Rehmanullah of the Frontier Corps was martyred during the attack, sources said, addin
g that the wounded
security m
an was shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment.
After the attack,
security personnel in the area launched retaliatory fire.
Published in Daily Times, September 3rd 2018.