Three mortar shells were fired from Afghanistan on Saturday which fell near the Pak-Afghan border. According to sources, the mortar shells landed in Lowai Shalman area of the Landikotal Tehsil of the Khyber Agency. No casualty was reported in the incident.
Meanwhile, curfew has been imposed on main Pak-Afghan Highway from Jamrud to Torkham apparently due to a cleanup operation launched by security forces. Some sources said the border had been shut down due to the second phase of the Afghan presidential polls to avoid any untoward incident.
The military sources said that security forces were carrying out sanitisation of the area along Jamrud-Torkham Road in Khyber Agency that was why curfew had been imposed. Meanwhile, security forces and militants clashed in Bakarabad area of the Khyber Agency during a search operation. In another incident in Bara Qamberabad area of Khyber Agency the Peace Committee member Rafiq Khan Orakzai was killed in an explosion apparently due to a remote controlled blast.