Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: At least one terrorist was killed and a soldier martyred during an intelligence-based operation in the Sambaza area of Zhob district in Balochistan.
ISPR statement about operation
According to a press release issued by Inter-services Public Relations (ISPR), for the last 96 hours to deny the terrorists the use of a few suspected routes to move across Pakistan-Afghanistan border to sneak into the Khyber-Pakhunkhwa 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 today. During the establishment of blocking positions to deny them escape routes, terrorists opened fire on the security forces,” the ISPR said.
“During the ensuing heavy exchange of fire, one terrorist was killed while Sepoy Haq Nawaz embraced Shahadat and two other soldiers got injured,” the ISPR said adding that “The terrorists were supported by their facilitators from across the border as well through fire.”
“The sanitization operation continues in the area to apprehend the remaining perpetrators,” the ISPR said.
