Salala is a ridge in the Baizai subdivision of Mohmand Agency

Mohmand Agency

The Mohmand Agency is a district in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan created in 1951. Before that, the Mohmand Tribes were administered by the Deputy Commissioner based in Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. However it was not until 1973 that the headquarters of...

, FATA

Federally Administered Tribal Areas

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas are a semi-autonomous tribal region in the northwest of Pakistan, lying between the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and the neighboring country of Afghanistan. The FATA comprise seven Agencies and six FRs...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 on the border with Afghanistan, at approximately 34.5 deg N, 71 deg E, 40 km west of the Mohmand capital of Ghallanai  The ridge contains two Pakistani Frontier Corps

Frontier Corps

The Frontier Corps is a federally-controlled paramilitary force of Pakistan, recruited mostly from the tribal areas along the western borders and led by officers from the Pakistan Army...

 checkpoints.

The area came under international attention in November 2011 following a NATO attack at Pakistani army checkpoints

2011 NATO attack in Pakistan

The 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan occurred when U.S.-led NATO forces fired on at Pakistani forces at two Pakistani checkposts along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on Saturday, 26 November 2011...

on the Salala mountain or ridge which killed 28 Pakistani soldiers.