Kunar, Nooristan terrorists’ havens: ISPR

Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), Maj Gen Athar Abbas said Thursday that many terrorist outfits and their key leaders including Fazlullah, Faqeer Muhammad, Abdul Wali and Hakimullah were taking refuge in safe havens present in Kunar and Nooristan areas of Afghanistan, Geo News reported.

In an interview with a British news channel, the DG ISPR said that these terrorists intrude into Pakistan by making it across the border to carry out subversive activities.

He said when Nato and Afghan forces were pulling away from these areas, the Pakistan military had shared its reservations with them and now the same were proving right.

Maj Gen Athar Abbas disclosed that 50-60 militants belonging to Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat infiltrated from Afhganistan’s Kunar province into Pakistan and stormed the joint check post of Levies and police. Thirty personnel who were present at check post were brutally butchered by the intruding militants.