As many as 18 militants have been killed and 20 more injured in an operation lodged by paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel in several areas of Pakistan's tribal area bordering Afghanistan, according to local TV reports Sunday.
No loss of life of any FC personnel was confirmed in preliminary reports while shootout between two sides is underway in Mohmand Agency, FC sources claimed early Sunday, Xinhua reported.
On Saturday evening, at least eight FC personnel were killed, and seven others were injured, when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpost on Margala Road in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.