Security forces kill five terrorists in Waziristan

RAWALPINDI: The military’s media wing announced on Friday that security forces had killed five terrorists during separate intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in North and South Waziristan.

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) issued a statement claiming that the terrorists were killed following an “intense fire exchange” with the security forces. The military’s media wing said after gunning them down, the forces recovered “weapons, ammunition, and a large quantity of equipment”. The ISPR stated that the Pakistan Army was resolutely committed to removing the threat of terrorism from every square inch of our territory.

The recent attacks by terrorists in the country’s rural and urban centres, claiming the lives of innocent Pakistanis and law enforcers, have triggered the security forces to speed up operations against the culprits.

The latest operation came after the security forces gunned down three terrorists in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan during a sanitisation operation on Thursday — which came after the forces killed six militants in the same area a day earlier.