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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani safety forces raided a number of militant hideouts within the nation’s northwest area, killing Pakistani Taliban and seizing a cache of weapons, the army and native officers mentioned.
The army mentioned Friday it used intelligence sources to focus on militants in operations carried out over the day past that killed 24 members of the outlawed Pakistani Taliban and Baloch separatist teams.
The army mentioned in a press release that the raids got here in response to a pair of militant assaults on Wednesday, together with a suicide bomber who used a automobile filled with explosives to ram cops and civilians. A bit of-known militant group additionally focused a police station and wounded a number of officers in Bannu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised the safety forces on Friday for what they described as a swift and efficient motion in opposition to these accountable for current assaults in Bannu.
The 2 males mentioned in separate statements that eliminating terrorism remained the federal government’s high precedence and vowed to convey perpetrators to justice.
The Pakistani Taliban, often known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, are separate from however allied with the Afghan Taliban authorities, which Pakistan steadily accuses of turning a blind eye to cross-border militant assaults. Afghanistan’s authorities in Kabul repeatedly rejects the claims, though the TTP and Baloch separatist group BLA steadily declare duty for assaults in Pakistan.
Since final 12 months, Pakistan has carried out a number of strikes it says focused TTP hideouts alongside the Afghan border.
The Pakistani authorities within the capital Islamabad additionally alleges the teams obtain assist from India to the south, which the Indian authorities in New Delhi denies. Of their statements Friday, the president and prime minister repeated the allegation.
Pakistan’s safety forces intend to press forward with Azm-e-Istehkam, or “Resolve for Stability,” a nationwide counterterrorism marketing campaign accredited final 12 months underneath the Nationwide Motion Plan to dismantle militant networks throughout the nation, the army mentioned.
