Two Army soldiers were killed and two others sustained injuries when their patrolling vehicle was targeted through an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Miranshah of North Waziristan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), reports The Express Tribune. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the slain soldiers were identified as Subedar Aziz and Lance Naik Mushtaq.
Separately, a top Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant, identified as Ameen Shah, who was behind the kidnapping and murder of Canadian journalist Khadija Abdul Qahar known as Beverly Giesbrecht before she converted to Islam, was killed near Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP, on June 10, reports PTI. Ameen Shah, was wanted in several cases of terrorism, KP Police Chief Sanaullah Abbasi said. He had kidnapped Qahar (55), in 2008 and killed her in Pakistan in 2010. The TTP had demanded USD two million as ransom and release of some of their detained leaders for her release.