Following the "intense exchange of fire", weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the killed terrorists, the ISPR added.
It further said the Death Eaters had remained "actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces".
The ISPR added: "The incident re-vindicates [the] Pakistain Army’s resolve to have zero tolerance for terrorism in Pakistain and reaffirms its determination to take on any and all entities that resort to violence."
The exchange of fire comes after a surge in terrorist activities in 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...
provinces, since the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
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Pakistain (TTP) ended its ceasefire with the government.
On Monday, a devastating suicide kaboom
took place in the 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...Police Line area that resulted in 101 people killed and around 59 injured, according to official numbers until now.
On January 18, security forces shot full of holes at least four Death Eaters during an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) in Balochistan’s Hoshab.
In the first week of the month, at least 11 terrorists, including a hard boy commander and two jacket wallahs, were killed in an IBO in South Waziristan’s Wana.
| Khaama Press clarifies: |
On Friday, Pakistan officials released a statement that troops had found a weapons cache at a militant hideout in North Waziristan, located in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the northwest of Pakistan.
Pakistani military routinely carries out such raids to find and arrest Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, also known as Taliban Pakistan.
Today’s military raid comes after Friday’s shootout in North Waziristan, a district of the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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