Security staff killed three terrorists in an intelligence -based operation in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa tanks, said the military media wing in a statement on Saturday.
According to public relations between services (ISPR), security personnel carried out the operation on the reported presence of terrorists in the area.
He added that the security forces “effectively committed” terrorists in their location, because three were “sent to hell.”
The ISPR said that weapons and ammunition also recovered from them, added that they actively participated in numerous terrorist activities against security forces, as well as innocent civilians.
The ISPR said that a disinfecting operation was being carried out to eliminate any other terrorist in the area. “Pakistan security forces are determined to eliminate the threat of terrorism from the country,” the statement concluded.
Earlier this week, 16 terrorists were killed, while five soldiers were martyred when security forces responded to a terrorist attack against Bannu’s cliff in the KP’s homonymous district.
The terrorists had rammed two vehicles loaded with explosives in the perimeter of the Bannu cliff in an attempt to enter the high security zone on Tuesday night. Thirteen civilians lost their lives, while another 32 were injured as a result of a mosque and a residential building that suffers “severe destruction” due to suicidal explosions, which caused the perimeter wall to partially collapse.
February saw a marginal increase in terrorist attacks, but a strong increase in civilian casualties, according to a report published by the group of experts based in Islamabad, the Institute of Conflict Studies and Security of Pakistan (PICS).
The report contained in terrorist attacks in Pakistan in February was published after a suicide terrorist rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives in a military convoy in Waziristan from the north last week, martyrizing two soldiers and hurting another 10.
According to PICSS, the country witnessed 79 terrorist attacks last month, which resulted in the death of 55 civilians and 47 security personnel, while 45 civilians and 81 security personnel were injured. Meanwhile, security forces intensified anti -terrorist operations, eliminating 156 terrorists, injuring 20 e arresting 66, he said.