In retaliation to brutal killing of a local leader of traders in Nawagai sub-division, the security forces Saturday launched an operation against militants and destroyed their several hideouts, besides seizing a huge cache of small and heavy arms.Official sources said the security forces launched operation against the militants after killing of Awami National Party leader and Nawagai traders’ President Muhammad Islam Khan by unknown assailants. “During the crackdown, the security forces destroyed several hideouts of militants and seized a large quantity of weapons, including explosives, rockets, hand-grenades and mortar shells,” the sources added.
The trader, Muhammad Islam, was kidnapped by unknown assailants and then beheaded after he gave a three-day deadline to Taliban for vacating residential and commercial areas in Nawagai tehsil so that security forces could not take action against them.
Meanwhile, unidentified persons shot dead a noted tribal elder Malik Munir and injured his nephew Rehman. Sources said that both the persons were coming from Khar Civil Colony to the village when unknown armed men opened indiscriminate fire on them, killing Munir on the spot and injuring Rehman.