Rawalpindi (GNP): In a determined effort to eliminate terrorist threats and dismantle the khwarij networks, Security Forces continue to conduct a series of intelligence-based operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, based on credible intelligence leads. Operations have been further expanded to hotspots including Datta Khel, Spinwam, and Bannu.
Over the last 48 hours, during the conduct of these series of operations, our troops effectively engaged multiple khwarij locations. Following intense and fierce exchanges of fire, twenty-three more khwarij belonging to Indian-sponsored Fitna-al-Khwarij, including kharji Ring leader Jan Meer alias Toor Saqib, have been neutralised in the aforementioned areas, thereby giving a significant blow to the khwarij networks operating in these areas.
Kharji Ring leader Jan Meer alias Toor Saqib was highly wanted by the Security Forces, and the Government had fixed a head money on him for his active involvement in numerous terrorist activities, including the killing of security forces personnel and innocent civilians.
Weapons, ammunition, and a large cache of explosives and prepared Improvised Explosive Devices have also been recovered from killed Indian sponsored Khwarij, who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area. Moreover, during sanitization operations, a series of complex networks of underground tunnels and bunkers used by Khawarij were also unearthed and destroyed by security forces.
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.
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Two intelligence-based operations were conducted in the province’s Orakzai and Khyber districts.
During the operation conducted in Orakzai district, troops engaged the terrorists and killed 14 terrorists. While in Khyber, during the conduct of another IBO, security forces killed 10 terrorists.
Following the engagements, security forces conducted sanitisation operations in the areas “to eliminate any other sponsored khawarij found in the area”.
