Rawalpindi/di Khan:
Security forces on Saturday removed seven terrorists belonging to the forbidden Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during an intelligence-based operation in the Carachi area of Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
According to a statement issued Sunday by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the operation was launched after reports of TTP presence in the area.
“During the operation, his own troops effectively engaged the Khwarij location and results resulting in seven Indian sponsored Khwarij-Inclusive three Afghan nationals and two suicide bomber sent to hell,” the statement reads.
It added that a sanitization operation was underway to eliminate any other “Indian sponsored Khwarij” hidden in the area. “The security forces in Pakistan are determined to wipe out the threat of Indian sponsored terrorism from the country,” it said.
The military’s media wing also stated that Pakistan expects the preliminary Afghan government to maintain its responsibilities and prevent its land from being used for terrorist activities against Pakistan. Khwarij is the expression used by security forces to describe TTP operatives considering their extremist ideology.
Separately, two terrorist developments in the Upper South Waziristan were destroyed when explosives stored inside went for unknown reasons, killed six terrorists, including one foreigner, and injured 14 others, among them seven Afghan citizens.
Local sources said TTP had used a public school in Dwara Hebat Khel and an abandoned house belonging to Syed Rehman Abdul Khil in Tangi Badin Zai as a hiding place. Both places were filled with a large cache of explosives, IEDs, grenades and rocket throwers.
Late Saturday night, the explosive detonated, killed Inayatullah, Zakir, Noor Hameem, Saeed Afghani, Khair alias Umar and Shakir alias Maulvi.
The wounded included Ziauddin, Kasani (Afghan), Sohail alias Malangi Mama, Sagheer (Afghan), Shahi (Afghan), Maulvi Qari (Afghan), Siddiq (Afghan), Yousaf Kaka, Saghar (Afghan), Watan Yar, Khaiu, Zabiullah (Afghan), Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Zaka, Khaiu. and Sabir alias Mukhlis.
In a statement, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif security forces for successful operation against terrorists in Kulachi appreciated.
In the war against terrorism, he said, the whole nation stood with security forces.
The Prime Minister repeated obligation to completely eliminate all forms of terrorism from the country.
