The military said intelligence reports indicated that the militants were ‘Khwarij’ – a phrase the government uses for the Pakistani Taliban.

The insurgents were spotted and killed near the former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near North Waziristan, a district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province along the Afghan border. View o

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani security forces overnight killed 54 militants who attempted to cross into the country from Afghanistan, the military said Sunday, marking one of the deadliest such killings in recent years.