TTP facilitator arrested, huge cache of weapons recovered
The intelligence based operation was conducted in Zhob.
RAWALPINDI (Dunya News) - Frontier Corps Balochistan and intelligence agencies Friday conducted an intelligence based operation (IBO) on a terrorist hideout in Zhob and apprehended a Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) facilitator.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), explosive, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), ammunition and weapons, dumped to carry out a terrorist activity in Quetta were also recovered during the operation.
Separately, security forces conducted an IBO in Mandi Khel near Dosaali, North Waziristan Agency and recovered a large amount of weapons and ammunition including guns, mortars, rocket launchers, IEDs and explosive. Security forces also recovered communication equipment and extremist literature, the ISPR statement added.
Pakistan has been battling the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other armed groups since 2007. Violence has dropped significantly in the past three years since the launch of a military operation to evict those groups from sanctuaries in the volatile northwestern tribal districts.
