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Pakistan military kills 59 militants

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Pakistani military forces have killed 59 militants in airstrikes and ground operations in the restive northwest of the country.

Airstrikes killed militants in Khyber tribal district and ground operations in Bajaur tribal area killed ten militants, the military said in a statement on Thursday.

The military operations came hours after a roadside bomb killed three paramilitary soldiers in Bajaur, around 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of Peshawar.

“Three paramilitary soldiers were killed when they walked over an IED (improvised explosive device) planted on a roadside in Damadola area of Bajaur tribal district,” local official Suhail Khan told AFP.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. However, the Pakistani Taliban, and its splinter factions, have regularly hit security forces in the northwest.

Pakistan has been fighting homegrown terrorists, who have killed thousands of ordinary Pakistanis in recent years.

The Pakistani government and military have reaffirmed their determination to defeat pro-Taliban militants following a massacre at a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday.

During the Peshawar incident, terrorists killed 148 people, including 132 children, at a school in the country’s deadliest ever terror attack.

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