ISLAMABAD: Security Forces have killed 74 Indian-sponsored terrorists in major Intelligence-Based Operations (IBOs) across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan, inflicting a significant blow to terrorist networks in Mir Ali, Orakzai and Kurram.
The operations also led to the recovery of a huge cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives, as the nationwide counterterrorism campaign under Azm-e-Istehkam continues, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in two separate statements issued on Friday.
According to the ISPR, security forces are conducting a series of Intelligence-Based Operations in a determined effort to eliminate terrorist threats and dismantle the khwarij networks in KP.
The statement added that these operations have been expanded to the areas of Mir Ali and Orakzai.
Over the last 48 hours, the military’s media wing said that, during the conduct of this series of IBOs, the troops effectively engaged khwarij in different locations.
Following intense and fierce exchanges of fire, thirty-five (35) khwarij belonging to Indian-sponsored Fitna-al-Khwarij have been neutralised in Mir Ali, and eight khwarij were sent to hell in Orakzai, thereby inflicting a significant blow to the khwarij networks operating in these areas.
A huge cache of weapons, ammunition, and explosives, including homemade explosives and improvised explosive devices, was also recovered during sanitization, thwarting Khwarij’s nefarious designs to use these materials in terrorist activities.
The ISPR revealed that sanitization operations continue to eliminate holed-up Khwarij from these areas, as a relentless Counter Terrorism campaign under the vision “Azm-e-Istehkam” (as approved by the Federal Apex Committee on National Action Plan) by Security Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies of Pakistan will continue at full pace to wipe out the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country.
Meanwhile, in another statement, the ISPR said that, continuing the counter-terrorism campaign, from 3 November onwards, the Security Forces conducted a comprehensive intelligence-based sanitisation operation in the Kurram area of District Quetta against Indian backed Fitna Al Khawarij & Fitna Al Hindustan in Balochistan.
During the conduct of these IBOs, multiple terrorist hideouts were effectively engaged, and as a result, 31 Indian-sponsored khwarij were sent to hell. Weapons, ammunition, and explosives were also recovered from the terrorist hideouts.
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