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A Pakistani army soldier was killed after "terrorists" opened fire on troops from inside Afghanistan at Kharlachi border crossing, in Kurram tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The incident took place on Thursday last week.

According to Pakistani army, "Pakistani troops responded in a befitting manner and inflicted heavy casualties on terrorists,"

The soldier killed in the attack has been identified as 27-year-soldier Jamshed Iqbal from Chiniot.

The attack was second in line with the attacks on the security forces in the Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

In September, three Pakistan Army soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire with terrorists across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Kurram district.

Clashes between security forces and suspected terrorists in the North Waziristan tribal district have become quite frequent in recent months.

On September 20, a Pakistani soldier was killed after the terrorists from inside Afghanistan opened fire on the army troops in Dwatoi area of the North Waziristan district.

Earlier, on September 6, five Pakistani soldiers were killed in the Boyya area of North Waziristan in an intense fire exchange during the conduct of the Intelligence Based Operation (IBO).

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The porous border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been a stronghold for the Pakistani Taliban, a banned terrorist group in Pakistan, for decades.