Two Pakistani soldiers injured in cross-border attack: Army

The army said on Friday that terrorists attacked a Pakistani border post in Khyber Agency from Afghanistan side Friday morning and injured two soldiers.

An army statement said that the terrorists carried out the attack early morning in Khyber agency, bordering Afghanistan.

"Pakistani forces effectively responded. There are reports of few Terrorists killed in exchange of fire," the statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations said.

Earlier Pakistan closed its border with Afghanistan hours after a suicide bomber massacred over 70 people and injured 300 more in southern Sindh province late Thursday, the military has said.

"Pakistan-Afghanistan Border closed with immediate effects till further orders due to security reasons," the army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor said following the late Thursday's bombing at a crowded shrine at Sehwan in Sindh.

Daesh claimed responsibility for the shrine terrorist attack in a statement sent to the local media.

Pakistani closed the border at Torkham, the busiest crossing, after a series of terrorist attacks in the country as security officials believe the bombers enter the country from Afghanistan.

There was no immediate response from Afghan government.

Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said in a statement late Friday that the "recent terror attacks are being executed on directions of hostile powers and from sanctuaries in Afghanistan.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have about 2,600 kilometers border, mostly porous, and the military seeks cooperation of the Afghan government to closely monitor the illegal cross-border movement.

The security forces also carried out search operations in parts of the country after Thursday's attack, killed 11 terrorists in the port city of Karachi and four in the northwestern district of Bannu, officials said on Friday. Endit