According to sources, security forces pounded militants’ hideouts in Upper Orakzai that destroyed 2 compounds and killed six militants.

Sources of security forces told that one soldier was martyred and four others sustained injuries in Tehsil Bara of Khyber Agency when militants attacked a security check post in Dolat Khel.

Earlier, militants killed six soldiers on January 25 in the district of Kurram, part of tribal belt along the Afghan border.