PAKISTAN: Pakistani security forces raided a militant hideout in the restive north-west near the Afghan border, killing nine militants, the military said today.

The military said in a statement that a militant Shireen was among those insurgents killed in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

All the militants who were killed were the “Khwarij,” a phrase the government uses for Pakistani Taliban, and Shireen was behind last month’s killing of an army Captain Hasnain Akhtar in a shootout in the region, the military said.