Pakistain's Inter-Services Public Relations, the military's media wing, said on April 26 that five Pak soldiers also were maimed in the clash that took place in the volatile tribal region of North Wazoo.
It did not identify which turban group the button men were thought to be linked to.
According to Pak officials, security forces captured what they described as "an accomplice" of the murderous Moslems and seized "a large cache" of weapons and explosives from a hideout used by the murderous Moslems in North Waziristan.
Terrorists linked to al-Qaeda, the Haqqani network
...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani...
of the Afghan Taliban
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, and Pak murderous Moslems have all been active in the region during the past decade.
The Pak military managed to push murderous Moslems out of their border-region strongholds through a series of offensives since 2014. But murderous Moslems continue to stage surprise attacks there.
The latest clash was the fifth between security forces and murderous Moslems in the area within the past month.
That has reinforced concerns that the murderous Moslems may be trying to regroup in their former strongholds in Pakistain.