ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – In Zhob area of Balochistan province, at least one soldier was killed and two others wounded during an operation on Sunday.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) – the military’s media wing – the operation initiated in Zhob for the last 96 hours aims “to deny the terrorists’ use of a few suspected routes to move across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to sneak into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa along the interprovincial boundary and target citizens and security forces.”
As a result of continuous surveillance and sanitization of the area, a group of terrorists was intercepted in the early hours of Sunday, said the ISPR, adding that “during the establishment of blocking positions to deny them escape routes, terrorists opened fire onto the security forces.”
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an area in Waziristan during operation
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In the ensuing heavy exchange of fire, one of the terrorists was killed while a Sepoy Haq Nawaz embraced martyrdom. Two other soldiers got injured. “The terrorists were supported by their facilitators from across the border as well through the fire,” added the statement.
The sanitation operation continues in the area to apprehend the remaining perpetrators, it said.
(With additional input from The News)