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- May 27, 2024
- Kainat Shakeel
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According to the military’s media affairs department, security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa carried out two distinct operations on Monday that resulted in the deaths of seventeen terrorists and the injuries of another two. In an operation carried out in Tank District on Monday, “our troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location, as a result of which ten terrorists were sent to hell,” according to a news release from Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Two terrorists were injured and seven were sent to hell by the security forces during another altercation that took place in the “general area [of] Bagh, Khyber District,” according to the ISPR.
But “during the intense exchange of fire, five brave soldiers” — Naik Muhammad Ashfaq Butt, 32, of Kahuta district; Lance Following their valiant battle, these four individuals—Naik Syed Danish Afkar, 30, of the Poonch district; Taimoor Malik, 32, of the Layyah district; Nadir Sageer, 22, of the Bagh district; and Muhammad Yasin, 23, of the Khushab district—embraced martyrdom. “The terrorists who were killed were found to have possessed a substantial amount of weapons, ammunition, and explosives, and they continued to actively engage in terrorist acts against both security forces and civilians in the community,” the statement said.
Security forces were “determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the country and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve,” the statement continued, adding that sanitization operations were being carried out to eradicate any more terrorists detected in the region. Separately, the ISPR stated that “six terrorists were successfully neutralized by the security forces and multiple hideouts were busted” during the intelligence-based operation (IBO) on Sunday in the Hassan Khel region of Peshawar, which resulted in the deaths of five terrorists and the injuries of three more. Havildar Shafiqullah and Captain Hussain Jehangir, who were killed in the same IBO, were buried in their hometowns with full military honors, according to Radio Pakistan.
Several top-serving military officers, martyrs’ families, and locals took part in the martyrs’ funeral prayers. The ISPR reported that on May 26–27, three different operations in KP resulted in the deaths of 23 terrorists. Terrorist activity in Pakistan has increased, particularly in KP and Balochistan, following the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan’s termination of their truce with the government in November 2022. In response to up to 245 incidents of terror attacks and counter-terror operations, Pakistan saw 432 violence-related fatalities and 370 injuries among civilians, security personnel, and outlaws during the first quarter of 2024, according to a security report released in March by the Centre for Research and Security Studies.
During this period, approximately 92% of all fatalities and 86% of attacks—including acts of terrorism and security forces operations were reported from KP and Balochistan, both of which border Afghanistan. According to the data, the former experienced 51% and the latter 41% of all fatalities in the first quarter of 2024, respectively.