At least six terrorists were killed when security forces spelled a massive suicide attack on a garrison in the fleeting southern district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday night, said security sources in the midst of reports of several civilian losses in the brave attack.

The attack on Bannu Cantonment, involving a dozen terrorists, comes days after a suicide bomber killed six people, including Maulana Hamidul Haq, the head of Jamait Urvili-e-Islam (Samiul Haq Group), in Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak.

Security sources said that heavily armed Khawarij made an abortion attempt to storm into Bannu Cantt. However, they panic outside the garrison because of the timely act of security forces, the sources added. “In a state of panic, Khawarij crashed two explosive carried vehicles into the walls of Bannu Cantt.”

The term Khawarij is used by the security forces of Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a forbidden umbrella of terrorist groups responsible for much of violence in the country. TTP was conducted from the former tribal areas as a result of a successful military operation, the codename Zarb-E-AZB, in 2014. The group has since found shrines in Afghanistan.

The blasts caused by explosive loaded vehicles at Kohati Gate Rev down the roof of a mosque and damaged several houses in the nearby KOT Barah area, which resulted in several civilian losses, according to officials. Several worshipers were caught under the mosque rubble.

“The death toll is now at twelve, including five children and two women, while at least 16 others were injured,” a senior police officer told Reuters News Agency on condition of anonymity. “The blasts created two four-foot craters, and due to their intensity, at least eight houses in the site have been damaged,” the police officer added.

According to Muhammad Nauman, a spokesman for the medical educational institution Bannu, five bodies were received in two state hospitals in the district, including three children and two women. He added that an emergency has been declared in the city’s hospitals.

Security sources said that six Khawarij was neutralized by security staff at different entrance points and the remaining terrorists are trapped. “The Clearance operation continues until all Khawarij is removed,” they added.

Targeting against innocent civilians and the mosque at ITAR times in the Holy Month Ramazan shows that Khawarij has nothing to do with Islam, according to security sources.

The brave attack has been claimed by an affiliated company with the forbidden Hafiz Yellow Bahadur Terrorist Group, enjoying shrines across the border in Afghanistan. The group conducted a similar deadly attack on the same garrison last July, which detonated an explosive vehicle against the border wall.

President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the terrorist attack and praised the security forces for “sending attackers to hell,” his office said in a statement. “Such an attack during iftar in the Holy Month Ramazan is an abominable act,” he said, adding that the entire nation rejects such dishonest acts.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also praised the security forces for “sending the terrorists to hell” who tried to attack Bannu Cantt. “The Feige terrorists who targeted innocent civilians in the Holy Month Ramazan do not deserve any grace,” the prime minister was quoted as saying by his office in a statement.

Terror attacks have been spiked in Pakistan since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021. Last year, it was the deadliest in a decade with an increase in attacks that killed more than 1,600 people, according to Islamabad-based analysis group Center for Research and Security Studies.

Islamabad has repeatedly exhorted Kabul’s Taliban shepherds to eradicate TTP and its affiliated companies that protect on Afghan Earth, but the Taliban remains reluctant. Last month, a UN report revealed that the Afghan Taliban’s continued support for TTP fuel in the group’s escalating attacks in Pakistan.

Revelation was made in the 35th report from the analytical support and sanction monitoring team, presented to the UN Security Council, covering the period from July 1 to December 13, 2024. “The status and strength of TTP in Afghanistan had not changed,” while the group intensified its assaults on Pakistan, who performed over 600 attacks in the report period, many Territory, the reports.

It emphasized that the Taliban continued to give TTP the logistical and operational space and financial support, which strengthens the group’s capacity to maintain its activities. The report revealed that the family for TTP manager receives about $ 43,000 per year. Month from the Afghan Taliban.

(With additional input from news desktop and agencies)