Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Peshawar. Military officials reported that they were in a stable condition.
Those killed in the attack were identified as Sepoy Imran Khan, Sepoy Muzzafar Shah, Sepoy Mohammad Yasin and Sepoy Ijazuddin.The wounded soldiers were Ajab Gul, Ashraf, Sikandar and Mohammad Yousaf.
The funeral prayers of the slain troops were offered at the 11th Corps Headquarters in Peshawar.
Besides several other senior military officials, Corps Commander Peshawar Lt General Hidayatur Rahman and Inspector General Frontier Corps (FC) Maj Gen Tayyab Azam attended the funeral prayers. Their bodies were later transported to their native areas for burial.
According to security officials, it’s the first incident of its kind on the Pak-Afghan border in Khyber Agency.
In the past, a number of Pakistani troops had been killed and injured in attacks staged from across the border in Afghanistan on their posts in Chitral and Upper Dir districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Bajaur and Mohmand tribal regions of Fata.
The rockets on the Pakistani post were fired from across the border only a few days after eight Afghan security personnel were killed during a clash between Pakistani and Afghan forces on the border between the two countries at Bajaur-Kunar. Three Pakistani soldiers were also killed in that incident.
The proscribed Lashkar-i-Islam militant group led by Mangal Bagh claimed responsibility for the attack through its spokesman, Salahuddin Ayubi. He maintained that six soldiers were killed and some were injured in the attack in which landmines were also used.
NNI adds: Pakistan summoned the Afghan Ambassador to its Foreign Office and lodged its protest over the cross-border rocket attack that martyred four Pakistani soldiers besides injuring as many.
Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan Janan Mosazai was called to Islamabad’s Foreign Office where Pakistan’s strong protest was conveyed to him. Pakistan demanded of Kabul to take measures on a war-footing to put a curb on such cross-border attacks.