Update on the Pakistan/Turkey Instability:

The restive Kurds and the PKK, and the dark north and west areas of Pakistan that have been radicalized by militant Islam, host terror training camps, and retain Taliban seeking to control Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal –both of these border conflicts affect our troops deployments in OEF and OIF, and involve major allies (Turkey and Pakistan) fighting for their own national security in internal conflicts that threaten to spill over into surrounding countries.

Gunmen kill soldier in Pakistan: police

QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — Gunmen killed a paramilitary soldier and injured a policeman at a checkpost in insurgency-hit southwestern Pakistan late Tuesday, police said.

The shooting took place on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan province bordering Afghanistan and Iran.

“Unknown gunmen fired at the checkpost from the roof of nearby houses after which a paramilitary soldier was killed and a policeman was injured,” senior police official Rehmatullah Niazi told AFP.

Turkish army kills Kurdish fighters

Turkish soldiers have killed six Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) separatists, including four women, near a mountainous region bordering Iraq after they defied calls to surrender, the military says.

A Turkish officer was also killed in the clash on Mount Gabar in the Sirnak province southeast of Turkey, it added.

The military said the slain fighters were those responsible for the deaths of 13 soldiers in early October, thought to be the worst single attack on Turkish forces in years, but it did not say how it ascertained this.