8 Pakistan soldiers, civilian killed in attacks near Afghan border: police

At least eight soldiers and a civilian were killed in Pakistan on Friday in two attacks in provinces bordering Afghanistan, police told AFP.

Seven soldiers were killed in a security operation in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province against “armed Taliban”, a police source said on Saturday, while a bomb blast from a motorbike killed a security force member and a civilian further south in Balochistan, a police officer told AFP.