At least eighteen people were killed when Talibs attacked a checkpost manned by pro-government primitives and security forces in northwest Pakistain, officials said on Sunday.Armed with assault rifles and hand grenades, the bully boyz killed four ethnic Pashtun rustics and a paramilitary soldier in the late Saturday attack.
Members of a tribal militia and security forces retaliated, killing 10 Death Eaters, said a senior government official in the Khyber region near the Afghan border, where the incident took place.
"A large number of weapons from the bully boyz were also confiscated," said the official, Rehan Khattak.
Pakistain's Taliban have stepped up attacks on Pashtun tribes who have raised militias to help security forces.
At least 40 people were killed and 68 maimed when a jacket wallah attacked a funeral of a member of a pro-government tribe in the northwestern Lower Dir district on Thursday.
Militants also grabbed credit for an attack on a school bus on Tuesday which killed five people, saying the children on the bus were from a pro-government tribe.
The Taliban are also holding more than 20 young men hostage from a pro-government tribe in an area straddling the Afghan border and have demanded the release of scores of prisoners and an end to support of military offensives against them.
Pak authorities have been encouraging the Pashtun tribes to revive traditional militias to counter the growing number of bully boyz fighting the Pak state.
Under a centuries-old tradition, the tribes raise the militias, or lashkars, in their semi-autonomous regions to fight criminal gangs and enforce their tribal codes.