{"id":19338,"date":"2023-09-21T22:39:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=19338"},"modified":"2023-09-21T22:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:39:45","slug":"six-terrorists-involved-in-bannu-suicide-attack-killed-ispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/six-terrorists-involved-in-bannu-suicide-attack-killed-ispr\/","title":{"rendered":"Six terrorists involved in Bannu suicide attack killed: ISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

The security forces on Thursday gunned down and arrested a number of terrorists that facilitated last month\u2019s attack on a military convoy in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) that martyred nine soldiers, the military\u2019s media wing said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced the killing and arrest of the terrorists in a statement issued after the security forces conducted two intelligence-based operations in KP.<\/p>\n

In total, the security forces killed eight terrorists and arrested five militants and their facilitators in the operations.<\/p>\n

The first operation was conducted in Jani Khel\u2019s general area, in Bannu District, where an \u201cintense fire exchange took place between own troops and terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the shootout, six terrorists were killed and five were arrested.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese terrorists were involved in numerous terrorist activities against security forces, including facilitation of motorcycle-borne suicide attack on a military convoy at Jani Khel on August 31, 2023, in which nine brave sons of soil laid their lives,\u201d the ISPR said.<\/p>\n

The other operation was conducted in the general area of Datta Khel, North Waziristan District, where two terrorists were killed \u201cin a fierce encounter between security forces and terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n

During the operation \u201cweapons and ammunition were also recovered from killed terrorists\u201d. The sanitisation of the surrounding areas is being carried out to neutralise any other terrorists found in the area, said the ISPR.<\/p>\n

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The military\u2019s media wing said that residents of the area lauded the operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecurity forces of Pakistan remain determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism,\u201d said the ISPR.<\/p>\n

Nation cannot be ‘coerced’ by ‘cowardly tactics of terrorists’: Gen Munir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gen Muni after the Bannu suicide attack, had vowed that the nation cannot be \u201ccoerced\u201d by the \u201ccowardly tactics of the terrorists\u201d who hold the \u201cmisbelief that they can challenge the iron resolve of the soldiers and writ of the state\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe army, law enforcement agencies and the nation can never be coerced by the cowardly tactics of the terrorists, who have a misbelief that they can challenge the iron resolve of the soldiers and writ of the state,\u201d Gen Munir had said while interacting with officers and troops deployed in the area.<\/p>\n

The COAS had further added that the nation has \u201cfought for long and will continue to fight the menace of terrorism till the end\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nation pays rich tribute to those who have laid their lives and their sacrifices will forever be honoured,\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n

The ISPR had said that during the visit Gen Munir was briefed on the ongoing operations and overall security situation. He also visited the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Bannu to inquire about the health and well-being of the injured troops.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pakistan Army will continue to act as a bulwark against terrorism to safeguard the nation from this scourge,\u201d the army chief had said while appreciating the \u201chigh morale and unflinching resolve of the troops\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The security forces on Thursday gunned down and arrested a number of terrorists that facilitated last month\u2019s attack on a military convoy in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) that martyred nine soldiers, the military\u2019s media wing said in a statement. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced the killing and arrest of the terrorists in a statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[580,10091,117],"class_list":["post-19338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-khyber-pakhtunkhwa","tag-north-wazirstan","tag-kp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}