In a statement, the military’s media wing said that the IBO was carried out in response to the recent Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion that claimed the lives of seven brave soldiers to bring the perpetrators of the heinous act to justice.
The martyred soldiers included Captain Muhammad Faraz Ilyas and Subedar Major Muhammad Nazir.
During the conduct of the operation, own troops effectively engaged the terrorists' location, as a result of which eleven Lions of Islam were successfully neutralised while multiple terrorist hideouts were also busted.
A sanitisation operation is being carried out to eliminate any other Lions of Islam found in the area as the security forces are determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the country, it concluded.
Last month, security forces conducted a series of intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province from May 26 to 27 and neutralised 23 terrorists.
On May 26, an IBO was conducted in the general area of Hassan Khel, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...district, where six Lions of Islam were bumped off by the security forces and multiple hideouts were busted.
On May 27, in another operation conducted in the Tank district, 10 bad boyz were potted after troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location.
The third engagement occurred in the general area of Bagh, Khyber district, wherein, the security forces killed seven Lions of Islam and injured two terrorists.
A large quantity of weapons, ammunition and explosives was also recovered from the killed terrorists, who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against the security forces as well as the innocent civilians, the ISPR said.
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