As tensions between the two nations increased, the military reported on Monday that Pakistani security forces killed 20 Pakistani Taliban fighters 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 South Waziristan province in the northwest, according to the military.
Over the weekend, a third round of peace negotiations in Istanbul collapsed, and Pakistan and Afghanistan blamed one other. Following horrific border battles that claimed the lives of scores of military and civilians on both sides, the talks, which Qatar and Turkey are brokering, started last month.
The killed militants were referred to by Pakistan’s military as “Khwarij,” a name used by the government 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 region of Dara Adam Khel.
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