Pak recovers 6 bodies, 34 missing
Taliban militants have handed over the bodies of six Pakistani soldiers killed in an attack near the Afghan border but the hunt is still on for 34 who remain missing, officials said on Friday.
The bodies were handed over to tribal elders late on Thursday, taken to a military base in the Mohmand tribal district and sent to their homes after funeral prayers, a military official said on Friday.
Some 34 soldiers are still unaccounted for, he said.
A political administration official in Mohmand confirmed that bodies of six soldiers had been handed over to tribal elders.
Dozens of paramilitary soldiers vanished after Taliban attacked their checkpost in a remote area of Mohmand near the Afghan border late on Sunday.
Twenty-five soldiers who strayed into Afghanistan after the clashes have been handed back to Pakistani officials.
Pakistani troops are fighting Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked militant groups on multiple fronts across its sprawling tribal badlands, which Washington has described as the most dangerous place on the earth.
The rugged terrain lying outside the direct government control, is considered an Al Qaeda headquarters and a stronghold of militants plotting attacks on United States-led troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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