KHAR: Three security personnel were injured when outlawed Taliban crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan and attacked their post in the border area in the Bajaur tribal region on Monday, political administration and local people said. The incident took place in the area of Ghakhi in Mamond tehsil, some 33km northwest of Khar, the headquarters of Bajaur Agency.

The sources said the militants entered the Pakistani territory and fired several rockets at the FC post in a hilly area. Three FC personnel manning the post suffered injuries.

“The attack has been repulsed,” officials said, adding security forces fired back at the militants’ positions who had come from the Afghan province of Kunar.

Soon after the incident volunteers of a village defence committee and members of the Mamond Qaumi Lashkar visited the scene of the attack. The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack. Calling from an unspecified place, TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid told reporters in the evening that his organisation had carried out the attack on the security post.

Published in Dawn, October 21st , 2014