Four terrorists eliminated in separate KP operations: ISPR

• One operation conducted in N Waziristaion, other in Khyber district.
• Sanitisation of area being carried out to neutralise any other threat.
• Security forces determined to wipe out menace of terrorism: ISPR. 
  

RAWALPINDI: Four terrorists were gunned down by the security forces in two separate operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the Inter-Serivces Public Relations (ISPR) said on Sunday.

According to a statement issued by the military’s media wing, an intelligence-based operation (IBO) was conducted in North Waziristan District where, “after an intense exchange of fire, two khwarij including Kharji Insaf Ullah, were [killed].”

In another operation in Khyber District, the ISPR said, “own troops effectively engaged the khwarij location and resultantly two khwarij were killed, while three got injured.”

Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from killed terrorists, who according to the military’s media wing remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against the law enforcement agencies (LEAs) as well as the innocent civilians.

Meanwhile, sanitisation of the area was being carried out to eliminate any other terrorists found in the area as “security forces of Pakistan are determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the country.”

A day earlier, at least six people including four cops were martyred and several others were injured in a "suicide bombing" in North Waziristan.

The law enforcers said that the attack targeted a police post in the Eidak area of Mir Ali. Four of the slain individuals were police personnel, they added.

The injured were shifted to hospital after a rescue operation was launched. The area was cordoned off by the security forces.

Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant attacks since the Taliban government returned to power in neighbouring Afghanistan in 2021, mostly in the northwestern border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but also in southwestern Balochistan, which abuts Afghanistan and Iran.

Islamabad accuses Kabul's interim rulers of failing to root out militants sheltering on Afghan soil as they prepare to stage assaults on Pakistan.