QUETTA/LAKKI MARWAT: The army’s propaganda wing reported on Tuesday that an intelligence-based operation in the Bannu district’s Janikhel town had killed three terrorists and injured nine more.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) claimed in a statement that the operation was started in response to reports of “khwarij,” an official word for prohibited groups, being present in the area. It further stated that security personnel successfully occupied the area, eliminating three terrorists and wounding nine others during the gunfight.
The ISPR stated that security forces were committed to ridding the nation of terrorism and that a sanitization operation was in progress to kill any surviving militants.
Earlier, late on Monday night, militants attacked an FC post in the Bannu district’s Baran Dam area, martyring a Frontier Constabulary soldier.
The attackers attempted to breach the post using both light and heavy weaponry, according to an official source who verified the attack. The attackers were successfully engaged by the FC staff, and the gunfight lasted for a while.
According to the source, the attackers were forced to retreat when the FC personnel successfully retaliated. During the gunfight, five FC members were hurt and taken to a hospital.
Two soldiers were killed.
Meanwhile, during an armed attack on a Frontier Corps security check post in the Gulistan area of Qila Abdullah, a district of Balochistan that borders Afghanistan, security forces and khwarij engaged in a heavy gunfight, killing five terrorists, including two suicide bombers, and two soldiers, the ISPR reported on Tuesday.
Khwarij attempted to attack a security position in the general vicinity of Gulistan in Qila Abdullah on the night of January 27–28, according to a statement from the ISPR. However, it also stated that Pakistani troops stopped the attack, forcing the terrorists to crash a truck carrying explosives into the boundary wall of the post.
According to the statement, all five terrorists—including two suicide bombers—were eliminated in the ensuing gunfight.
Two troops gave their lives during the fierce fight: Lance Naik Tahir Iqbal, age 26, from Karak district, and Naik Tahir Khan, age 39, from Tank district.
A Levies official was shot and killed.
A Levies Force official was shot dead by unidentified armed persons in Turbat’s Kalatak Bazaar neighborhood in a different incident, according to authorities on Tuesday.
While traveling home, Ghulam Jan, a Levies official, was the target of an attack. He died instantly after being shot many times.
According to the police, it seemed to be a case of target killing. The murder has not been attributed to any gang.