10 ‘terrorists’ killed in Mianwali operation



Punjab Police personnel stand guard in Lahore. — APP/File
Punjab Police personnel stand guard in Lahore. — APP/File

The Punjab police claimed to have killed 10 terrorists in mountainous space of Malla Khel in Mianwali after partaking in an intense gun battle.

A police spokesperson detailed {that a} staff headed by DPO Mianwali Akhtar Farooq performed an operation on reported presence of 10 to fifteen terrorists.

Through the raid, terrorists opened hearth on the police staff and in retaliation, 10 of them have been killed by the police personnel.

Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant assaults for the reason that Taliban authorities returned to energy in neighbouring Afghanistan in 2021, largely within the northwestern border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but in addition in southwestern Balochistan, which abuts Afghanistan and Iran.

Islamabad accuses Kabul’s interim rulers of failing to root out militants sheltering on Afghan soil as they put together to stage assaults on Pakistan.

In opposition to this backdrop, the federal cupboard in June this yr accepted Operation Azm-e-Istehkam, a reinvigorated nationwide counter-terrorism marketing campaign following the Central Apex Committee’s suggestions below the Nationwide Motion Plan to root out terrorism.

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