Pakistan says it has killed 54 militants trying to enter from Afghanistan

The Pakistan Army said on Sunday that it had killed 54 militants trying to infiltrate the country from Afghanistan, highlighting the challenges facing its forces on multiple fronts as tensions with India rapidly increased.

Its army said that the operation against the fighters from Afghanistan was held on Friday and Saturday nights in northern Waziristan, a remote area along the northwestern border of Pakistan.

The army said that the Pakistani forces discovered and killed the large group of militants, adding that they had seized a temporary memory of weapons and explosives.

The reported 54 was usually a large number in the Battle of Pakistan against instability along its borders with Afghanistan in almost four years since the United States withdrew its military support from the country and the Taliban took power.

The banned group, TEHRIK-E-TALIBAN PAKISTAN, or TTP, has increased attacks on the Pakistani security forces, and exerted relations between Pakistan leaders and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Pakistan accuses the Taliban of harboring TTP fighters, a claim that the Taliban denies.

The Pakistani government is also competing with the increasingly deadly rebellion between the Baloch separatists in the southwest of the country. On the eastern front, the Pakistani forces were placed on alert as it seems that India Move towards military strikes Inside the country after a deadly terrorist attack in Kashmir last week.

Unlike previous crises, Pakistan is no longer enjoying the strong American military support that it relied on during the 20 -year -old American presence in Afghanistan. This loss left the army facing one of its most challenging periods for years.

Security officials say they are preparing on a continuous extension of confronting militants who suffer from fighting in the west and southwest and the possibility of traditional skirmishes with nuclear armed India to the east.

Abdel -Baytat, an oldest research colleague at the College of International Studies in S. Rajoratnam in Singapore, the killing of 54 militants from Afghanistan “confirming contradictory to both the success and challenge of the Pakistani army”, which he described as “increasingly removing the eastern and western borders.” “India will maintain the threat of possible military action alive, and extend it as much as it can preserve the Pakistani military army,” said Mr. Bastit.