Six “terrorists” killed in two operations by Pakistani security forces

MADRID 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Six suspected “terrorists” were killed last night in two security force operations in northwest Pakistan, the Pakistani Armed Forces reported.

The military detected a group of “terrorists” who “were trying to infiltrate from the border with Afghanistan” in the Jamrang area, in the South Waziristan district, according to the military statement.

Military forces “intervened and thwarted the infiltration attempt.” Five “terrorists” were killed and three more were wounded.

In a second incident, Pakistani forces attacked “infidels” in the Dosali area of ​​North Waziristan district, also in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “Our troops attacked a place of infidels in an operation in which the infidel Ahmed Shah Intizar has been sent to hell,” they noted.

The military statement highlights that Pakistan has requested the Afghan authorities to guarantee the security of the border and prevent the use of Afghan soil by militants who perpetrate “terrorist acts against Pakistan.”

Between July and September 2024 alone, 722 people have died, including civilians, and another 615 have been injured in a spike in violence. The vast majority of these deaths are concentrated in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhua and Balochistan. In total, 1,534 deaths have been recorded so far this year, a figure that already exceeds the 1,523 deaths in all of 2023.

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. 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.