The statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) identified the deaders as 26-year-old Sepoy Waqas Ali Shah from Charsadda and 24-year-old Sepoy Basir Ali from 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...
"On April 25, 2023, an exchange of fire took place between own troops and Death Eaters in general area Tirah, Khyber district. Own troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location," the ISPR said.
"Resultantly, two Death Eaters were sent to hell and four Death Eaters were maimed. Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the killed terrorists," it stated, adding that sanitisation of the area was being carried out to eliminate other forces of Evil in the area.
"Security forces of Pakistain are determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve," the military’s media wing added.
The exchange of fire comes amid a surge in terrorist activities across the country, especially in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, since the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
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Pakistain (TTP) ended its ceasefire with the government in November.
In his maiden press briefing a day earlier, ISPR Director General Maj Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry revealed that at least 293 people were martyred and 521 were maimed in 436 terrorist incidents over the past year.
In KP, 192 people were martyred in 219 terror activities, while 80 people lost lives in 206 incidents in Balochistan, 14 people in five attacks in Punjab, and seven in six terrorism incidents across Sindh.
He said that the army and law enforcement agencies carried out 8,269 intelligence-based operations during the previous year in which 1,378 suspected Death Eaters were apprehended and 157 were killed.
The DG ISPR also said that overall 137 security personnel were martyred and 117 injured in anti-terror operations in the ongoing year.