RAWALPINDI (Dunya News) – Security forces killed 74 terrorists during multiple intelligence based operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, according to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).
In a determined effort to eliminate terrorist threats and dismantle the terrorist networks, security forces are conducting a series of intelligence based operations (IBOs) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, adding that these operations have been further expanded to the areas of Mir Ali and Orakzai.
Over the last 48 hours, during the conduct of these series of IBOs, own troops effectively engaged multiple terrorist’s locations.
Following intense and fierce exchanges of fire, 35 terrorists belonging to Indian-sponsored “Fitna-al-Khwarij” have been neutralised in Mir Ali and eight were eliminated in Orakzai, thereby inflicting a significant blow to the khwarij networks operating in these areas.
In Kurram area of Balochistan’s district, security forces are conducting comprehensive intelligence based area sanitisation operation from 3 November.
During the conduct of these intelligence based operations, multiple terrorist hideouts were effectively engaged and after multiple engagements, thirty one Indian sponsored khwarij were killed.
ISPR said huge cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives including homemade explosives and improvised explosives devices were also recovered during sanitization, thwarting Khwarij nefarious designs to use these materials in terrorists activities.
“Sanitization operations continue to eliminate holed up khwarij from these areas, as relentless Counter Terrorism campaign under vision “Azm e Istehkam” (as approved by Federal Apex Committee on National Action Plan) by Security Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies of Pakistan will continue at full pace to wipe out the menace of foreign sponsored and supported terrorism from the country,” ISPR concluded.