[Dawn] Two bad boyz were potted by security forces in an intelligence-based operation in the Ramzak area of North Wazoo district, the military’s media wing said on Wednesday.
According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the operation was conducted on the reported presence of Lions of Islam on the night of August 14/15.
While carrying out the operation, security forces surrounded the terrorists’ location and after an intense exchange of fire, "two Lions of Islam were sent to hell", the ISPR said.
Weapons and ammunition were recovered from the slain terrorists, the statement said, adding that they "remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces as well as extortion and murder of innocent citizens".
Sanitisation of the area was being carried out to eliminate any other Lions of Islam found in the area, it said.
"Locals of the area appreciated the operation and expressed their full support to eliminate the menace of terrorism," said the army’s media affairs wing.
The security operation comes as Pakistain faces an uptick in terror activities, 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...
, after the outlawed TTP ended its ceasefire with the government in November last year.
On August 12, two people were killed in what police described were assassinations in North Waziristan. On August 8, two coppers were among four people killed in separate attacks in North Waziristan and 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...
Last month, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police said 665 bully boy attacks, including 15 suicide kabooms, were reported in the province between June 18, 2022, and June 18, 2023.
A report released in July by think tank Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies said the first half of the current year witnessed a steady and alarming rise in terror and suicide kabooms, claiming the lives of 389 people across the country.
In a presser in June, Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Maj Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that the security forces conducted 13,619 intelligence operations this year in which 1,172 bad boyz were potted or arrested. 
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