Seventeen terrorists had been killed and one other two had been injured on Monday in two separate operations performed by safety forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the army’s media affairs wing mentioned.
In a press launch, the Inter Providers Public Relations (ISPR) mentioned that in an operation performed in Tank District on Monday, “personal troops successfully engaged the terrorists’ location, because of which ten terrorists had been despatched to hell”.
One other engagement occurred within the “common space [of] Bagh, Khyber District, whereby the safety forces despatched seven terrorists to hell whereas two terrorists had been injured”, the ISPR mentioned.
Nonetheless, “through the intense change of fireside, 5 courageous troopers” — Naik Muhammad Ashfaq Butt, 32, resident of district Kahuta; Lance Naik Syed Danish Afkar, 30, resident of district Poonch; Sepoy Taimoor Malik, 32, resident of district Layyah; Sepoy Nadir Sageer, 22, resident of district Bagh; and Sepoy Muhammad Yasin, 23, resident of district Khushab — “having fought gallantly, embraced martyrdom”.
“A big amount of weapons, ammunition and explosives was additionally recovered from the killed terrorists, who remained actively concerned in quite a few terrorist actions in opposition to the safety forces in addition to the harmless civilians,” the assertion mentioned.
It additional mentioned sanitisation operations had been being carried out to get rid of some other terrorists discovered within the space, asserting that safety forces had been “decided to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the nation and such sacrifices of our courageous troopers additional strengthen our resolve”.
Individually, referring to Sunday’s intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Peshawar’s Hassan Khel space, which killed five terrorists and injured one other three, the ISPR mentioned “six terrorists had been efficiently neutralised by the safety forces and a number of hideouts had been busted” throughout that motion.
Captain Hussain Jehangir and Havildar Shafiqullah, who had been martyred throughout the identical IBO, had been laid to relaxation with full army honours of their native areas, Radio Pakistan reported.
A lot of senior serving army officers, households of martyrs and native individuals participated within the funeral prayers of the martyrs.
A complete of 23 terrorists had been killed in three separate operations in KP on Could 26-27, the ISPR highlighted.
Pakistan has witnessed an uptick in terror actions, particularly in KP and Balochistan after the banned militant Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan ended its ceasefire with the federal government in November 2022.
Based on a security report issued by the Centre for Analysis and Safety Research in March, Pakistan witnessed 432 violence-linked fatalities and 370 accidents amongst civilians, safety personnel, and outlaws, ensuing from as many as 245 incidents of terror attacks and counter-terror operations through the first quarter of 2024.
KP and Balochistan, each bordering Afghanistan, accounted for over 92 per cent of all fatalities and 86pc of assaults, together with incidents of terrorism and safety forces operations, throughout this era. Individually, the previous suffered 51pc and the latter 41pc of all fatalities within the first quarter of 2024, the report mentioned.