According to Inter-Services Public Relations, two soldiers were martyred in a terrorist attack with militants on Sunday in the Spinwam neighborhood of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) North Waziristan district (ISPR).
Both sepoys lmran Ullah, 25, of District Bajaur District, and sepoy Afzal Khan, 21, of District Upper Dir District, battled valiantly and chose martyrdom during the heavy exchange of fire.
Two terrorists were captured by army personnel, and at least two more were killed. The terrorists’ weapons and ammo were also found.
The propaganda arm of the military further stated that the militants had continued to aggressively engage in terrorist attacks on security personnel and the murder of unarmed civilians. To get rid of any leftover terrorists that have been discovered in the area, a sanitization operation is being conducted.
The Pakistani Army has stated that it is determined to “eradicate the threat of terrorism,” and it claims that the courageous troops’ sacrifices have strengthened this resolve even more.
In the same region of North Waziristan last week, security forces engaged in gunfire with militants, which resulted in the death of a terrorist. The terrorist had been actively involved in attacks on law enforcement and civilians.
Locals praised the response and offered their full support for the effort to eradicate the threat of terrorism from the region, according to the military’s media wing.
“Pakistan Security Forces’ Anti-Terrorism Success”
In the past three months, Pakistan’s security services have carried out several operations against terrorism around the nation, arresting terrorists and their facilitators while also thwarting a number of attacks.
As efforts to rid the nation of terrorism continue, security personnel have killed at least 142 terrorists in the last three months. In the last three months, security personnel conducted 6,921 operations around the nation, arresting at least 1,007 terrorists.
A total of 1,960 operations were carried out in K-P, of which 1,516 were actions for area dominance, 301 were operations based on intelligence, and 143 were operations for area sanitization.
Security forces’ actions resulted in the deaths of 98 terrorists and the arrests of 540 others in K-P.