At least three soldiers killed in an operation against suspected terrorists in East Pakistan

MADRID 31 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least three Pakistani soldiers died this Wednesday in an operation against suspected terrorists in the town of Baka Jel, which is located in the Bannu district, in the Khyber Pakhtuja region, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, near the border with Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s Army Information Office (ISPR) has explained that “during an intense exchange of fire” a commander, identified as Atif Jalil, 31, and two private soldiers, Naik Azad Ulá (36) and Lance Naik Ghazanfar Abbas (35 years old). In addition, the troops have killed eight suspected terrorists and wounded seven others, according to a statement published on their website.

Likewise, they have reported that during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday the security forces carried out another Intelligence operation, in this case in the town of Sambaza, in the Balochistan region, also bordering Afghanistan, where they killed an alleged terrorist while they detained another who was injured. They have also seized weapons and ammunition.

Pakistani security forces have carried out dozens of operations in recent months against the group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), known as the Pakistani Taliban and responsible for dozens of attacks against security forces since the ceasefire was broken. the fire in November 2022.

The TTP group, which differs from the Afghan Taliban in organizational matters but follows the same rigorous interpretation of Sunni Islam, brings together more than a dozen Islamist militant groups operating in Pakistan, where they have killed some 70,000 people in two decades of violence.