LAHORE: The Punjab police have claimed killing 10 terrorists following an intense gunfight in mountainous space of Malla Khel in Mianwali, a spokesperson stated on Thursday.
The spokesperson detailed {that a} police group headed by DPO Mianwali Akhtar Farooq carried out an operation on reported presence of 10 to fifteen terrorists.
In the course of the raid, terrorists opened fireplace on the police group and in retaliation, 10 of them have been killed by the 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 additionally 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.
Towards 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 underneath the Nationwide Motion Plan to root out terrorism.