Taliban launch attacks along Pakistan border

At least 11 soldiers and 24 militants have been killed in clashes near the Afghan border in north-west Pakistan.



Officials say about 150 members of the Taliban launched co-ordinated attacks against five Frontier Corps checkpoints in Mohmand tribal region.



The Taliban say only two of their fighters had died.



The military has launched offensives in the region in recent months, but insurgent attacks have continued.



Pakistan's Mohmand tribal region has long served as a sanctuary for militants operating against US-led troops based across the border in Afghanistan's north-east Kunar province.



Mohmand also shares a border with another volatile Pakistani tribal district, Bajaur, where the Pakistani army conducted a year-long operation against militants in 2008-09.