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"It's not clear if the terrorists attacked from outside, or if they snatched the ammunition from staff inside," Bannu police spokesman told Reuters.
Nidan, who had gone to Afghanistan to perform a service at the Thala Sri Guru Nanak Sahib gurdwara in Chamkani, was reportedly abducted by four armed men.
In neighbouring Farah province, two militants were killed and another wounded in an air strike in Asad Jamkai village, Gulistan province at 9.26 p.m. local time Saturday, the statement said.
At least six Afghan security forces and eight Taliban militants were killed on Tuesday after heavy fighting broke out in the country`s Farah city.
The airstrikes were conducted in Sancharak district of the province of Afghanistan
At least 50 Taliban militants were killed in the airstrikes
Anti-ISIS, anti-Taliban operations are currently underway in Afghanistan
The militants stormed the building by firing automatic weapons, creating panic, officials said.
At least 40 Afghan soldiers were killed and 40 injured after the Taliban attacked the Afghan Army base in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
Gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying a senior police officer in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, killing him and three other policemen.
"Afghan special forces conducted night operations against insurgents in Nawa district on Sunday night which resulted in killings 42 rebels and injuring 27 others," a government statement said.
A health worker who had been immunising children against polio was shot dead in Pakistan`s northwestern province Saturday, the provincial health department said.
The IS militants captured Aqbalaq village in Darzab district last week and arrested 10 Taliban militants.
An Afghan official says that Taliban militants have stoned a man and a woman accused of adultery to death.
A local Taliban leader and five Taliban insurgents were killed after the Afghan army launched an operation in the province of Uruzgan, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
At least 32 militants were killed as Afghan forces thwarted Taliban offensive to capture Faizabad district in Jauzjan province, an official said on Monday.
At least 60 Taliban militants have been killed by Afghan security forces after six days of fierce fighting in Afghanistan's Sar-e Pol province, authorities said on Sunday.
Conflict between government forces and Taliban militants in the northern Jauzjan province have left five insurgents dead and 10 others injured on Saturday, police chief of the province Rahmatullah Turkistani said.
The tourists -- eight British, three Americans and one German national -- were ambushed by Taliban gunmen in the restive district of Chesht-e-Sharif.
Twenty Taliban militants surrendered to the government in Afghanistan`s Badakhshan.
A leader of a Pakistani religious party had a lucky escape when several shots were fired at his car here, days after renowned Qawwal Amjad Sabri was killed by Taliban militants in the country's largest city and economic hub.
A senior Taliban leader named Mullah Jannat Gul along with 15 of his men were killed after a drone struck two vehicles on Saturday.
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