Pakistan kills a dozen suspected terrorists, including a leader, near the border with Afghanistan

MADRID 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Pakistan Army announced this Thursday the death of nearly a dozen suspected terrorists, including a leader, in an operation carried out in the Bajaur district, located in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. near the border with Afghanistan.

The Army Information Office (ISPR) has explained that the operation took place on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, when Pakistani troops attacked a terrorist target and there was “an intense exchange of fire.” Among the dead are two suicide bombers and a leader of the group identified as Said Muhamad Qureshi Ustad.

According to a statement published on its website, the security forces have also seized “a large quantity of weapons, ammunition and explosives” from the terrorists, who “continued to actively participate in numerous terrorist activities against the security forces and against innocent civilians.” “. “A cleanup operation is being carried out in the area,” he added.

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.