The Pakistani authorities announced this Wednesday the death of eleven alleged terrorists in several operations carried out by security forces in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (west), a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, near the border with Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s Army Information Bureau (ISPR) has explained that seven of the terrorists have been killed in an Intelligence operation carried out in Tank district. The second operation, in which two suspects died, took place in the North Waziristan district, while the third, in which two others died “after an intense exchange of fire”, took place in the Mohmand district. .
“Arms and ammunition have also been recovered from the dead terrorists, which were actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against security forces and innocent civilians. Clearance operations are being carried out to eliminate any other terrorists in the area,” read a statement.
Pakistani security forces have carried out dozens of operations in recent months against the group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), known as the Pakistani Taliban and responsible for dozens of attacks against security forces since the ceasefire was broken. fire in November 2022. The TTP group, which differs from the Afghan Taliban in organizational matters but follows the same rigorous interpretation of Sunni Islam, brings together more than a dozen Islamist militant groups operating in Pakistan, where they have killed some 70,000 people in two decades of violence.
