PESHAWAR – Pakistani safety forces raided a militant hideout within the restive northwest close to the Afghan border, killing 9 militants, the army stated Monday.
The army stated in a press release {that a} high-value militant Shireen was amongst these insurgents killed in Dera Ismail Khan, a metropolis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
All of the militants who had been killed had been the “Khwarij,” a phrase the federal government makes use of for Pakistani Taliban, and Shireen was behind final month’s killing of a military Capt. Hasnain Akhtar in a shootout within the area, the army stated.
The Pakistani Taliban are often known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. The group is an ally of the Taliban in Afghanistan and has been emboldened because the Afghan Taliban seized energy there in 2021.
Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant assaults, most claimed by TTP.
Although Pakistan usually conducts operations in opposition to the militants, the newest raid in Dera Ismail Khan got here a day after troops killed eight militants within the northwestern North Waziristan district as they tried to cross the border with Afghanistan.
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