Suspected pro-Taliban militants on Tuesday kidnapped four paramilitary soldiers in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said, AFP reported.The kidnapping took place near the town of Razmak in North Waziristan, where the army has been battling militants for the last five years, they said. “The four soldiers were going on holidays and were snatched from a privately hired car near Noor Alam checkpost by unidentified gunmen,” a local official told AFP. “A search has been launched for the kidnapped soldiers,” he said. Meanwhile, a remote controlled bomb planted at a roadside hit a military convoy at Spinwam in the Mir Ali sub-division of North Waziristan around 6 pm on Tuesday. An army officer was critically injured in the blast, sources told Daily Times.
Sources said that cross firing between militants and security forces continued for an hour after the blast on the military convoy that was moving towards Spinwam from Tal, around 30 kilometres north of Mir Ali. Gunship helicopters scanned the area following the blast, residents told Daily Times.