Later that day, on Wednesday, a mortar fired by rebels landed near a road in the Tirah valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing two schoolchildren walking to school, police said.

The Pakistani military has launched dozens of operations against the Pakistani Taliban and other insurgents in South Waziristan and other nearby former tribal areas, but the militants continue to launch frequent attacks.

On Thursday, Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met Chinese ambassador Jiang Zaidong in Islamabad and briefed him on the investigation into an attack in which a security guard allegedly shot and injured two Chinese citizens at a textile factory in the port city of Karachi on Tuesday. custom dispute.

China has frequently demanded better security for its citizens in Pakistan to work for Beijing’s multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative. An unknown number of Chinese also work in factories in the country.