TIMERGARA, July 1: Security is being beefed up in Lower and Upper Dir districts to check militant attacks from across the border, senior security officials said on Sunday.

Talking to journalists, the officials said that militants from Afghanistan had been attacking border check-posts for quite some time.

Three attacks were repulsed in as many days in which 34 militants were killed and many others injured.

The death toll could not be confirmed from independent sources.

The sources said that the number of security personnel and check-posts in the border area was being increased to stop militants’ infiltration.—Correspondent

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