RAWALPINDI: The safety forces on Thursday killed eight terrorists in two separate intelligence-based operations performed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the army’s media wing in an announcement stated.
Throughout one of many operations the safety forces gunned down and arrested quite a lot of terrorists that facilitated final month’s assault on a army convoy in Bannuthat martyred 9 troopers, the army’s media wing stated in an announcement.
The primary operation was performed in Jani Khel’s normal space, in Bannu District, the place an “intense hearth trade occurred between personal troops and terrorists”.
Within the shootout, six terrorists had been killed and 5 had been arrested.
“These terrorists had been concerned in quite a few terrorist actions towards safety forces, together with facilitation of motorcycle-borne suicide assault on a army convoy at Jani Khel on August 31, 2023, through which 9 courageous sons of soil laid their lives,” the ISPR stated.
The opposite operation was performed within the normal space of Datta Khel, North Waziristan District, the place two terrorists had been killed “in a fierce encounter between safety forces and terrorists”.
Throughout the operation “weapons and ammunition had been additionally recovered from killed terrorists”. The sanitisation of the encompassing areas is being carried out to neutralise some other terrorists discovered within the space, stated the ISPR.
The army’s media wing stated that residents of the world lauded the operation.
“Safety forces of Pakistan stay decided to remove the menace of terrorism,” stated the ISPR.
Nation can’t be ‘coerced’ by ‘cowardly techniques of terrorists’: Gen Munir
Gen Muni after the Bannu suicide assault, had vowed that the nation can’t be “coerced” by the “cowardly techniques of the terrorists” who maintain the “misbelief that they’ll problem the iron resolve of the troopers and writ of the state”.
“The military, regulation enforcement businesses and the nation can by no means be coerced by the cowardly techniques of the terrorists, who’ve a misbelief that they’ll problem the iron resolve of the troopers and writ of the state,” Gen Munir had stated whereas interacting with officers and troops deployed within the space.
The COAS had additional added that the nation has “fought for lengthy and can proceed to combat the menace of terrorism until the tip”.
“The nation pays wealthy tribute to those that have laid their lives and their sacrifices will without end be honoured,” he had stated.
The ISPR had stated that in the course of the go to Gen Munir was briefed on the continuing operations and general safety state of affairs. He additionally visited the Mixed Army Hospital (CMH) Bannu to inquire in regards to the well being and well-being of the injured troops.
“The Pakistan Military will proceed to behave as a bulwark towards terrorism to safeguard the nation from this scourge,” the military chief had stated whereas appreciating the “excessive morale and unflinching resolve of the troops”.
