PESHAWAR: Two terrorists were killed during an exchange of fire with security forces in the Kulachi area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan District, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Friday.
“During the exchange of fire, two terrorists [were] killed. Weapons and ammunition [were] also recovered from the killed terrorists,” the military’s media affairs wing said.
It added that the militants were “actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces”.
Five days back, security forces had killed six terrorists belonging to the Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) during a search operation in Paroom area in Balochistan’s Panjgur district. Security forces had conducted an operation on a tip-off regarding the presence of terrorists in Zamran Range near Paroom.
The ISPR said the slain terrorists were involved in attacks on checkposts as well as IED attacks on security convoys in Paroom and surrounding areas of Panjgur.
The forces also recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition which, according to the ISPR, were to be used by terrorists for disrupting peace in the area.
On June 7, security forces killed four terrorists during operations in North Waziristan tribal district and Balochistanās Noshki district.
