{"id":59929,"date":"2024-12-21T23:04:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=59929"},"modified":"2024-12-21T23:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:04:48","slug":"16-soldiers-martyred-in-south-waziristan-gunbattle-ispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/16-soldiers-martyred-in-south-waziristan-gunbattle-ispr\/","title":{"rendered":"16 soldiers martyred in South Waziristan gunbattle: ISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Sixteen soldiers were martyred in a terrorist attack on<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/four-khwarij-killed-as-security-forces-thwart-infiltration-attempt-on-pak-afghan-border\/\"> security forces<\/a> check post in the General area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bMakeen district of South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on the intervening night of December 20-21, the army&#8217;s media wing said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The attempt was effectively foiled by our troops and in the ensuing exchange of fire, eight Khawarij were sent to hell,&#8221; the<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/11-terrorists-killed-in-kp-operations-ispr\/\"> Inter-Services Public Relations<\/a> said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased soldiers were identified as Sepoy Ihsanul Haq, 22, a Lower Dir resident; Sepoy Faiz Muhammad, 22, a Mansehra resident; Lance Naik Sher Muhammad, 26, a Malakand resident; Lance Naik Mosawir Shaheen, 29, a Kohat resident; Lance Naik Liaqat Ali, 30, a Kurram resident; Lance Naik Muhammad Ishaq, 31, Karak resident; Lance Naik Hamid Ali, a Swabi resident; Havaldar Umer Hayat, 40, a Kohat resident; Havaldar Tahir Mehmood, 41, a Kohat resident; Havaldar Muhammad Hayat, 37, a Bannu resident; Havaldar Ayub Khan, 38, a Attock resident; Sepoy Tayyab Ali, 23, a Haripur resident; Sepoy Mehboob Rehman, 26, a Tank resident; Sepoy Kalim Ullah, 26, a Lakki Marwat resident; Sepoy Junaid, 26, a Shangla resident; and Sepoy Junaid Sawati, 25, a Khyber resident.<\/p>\n<p>A clean-up operation was conducted in the area and the perpetrators of this act will be brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s security forces are determined to eradicate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices by our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has been battling a resurgence of militant violence in its western border areas since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Sixteen soldiers were martyred in a terrorist attack on security forces check post in the General area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bMakeen district of South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on the intervening night of December 20-21, the army&#8217;s media wing said on Saturday. &#8220;The attempt was effectively foiled by our troops and in the ensuing exchange of fire, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1598,457,111],"class_list":["post-59929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-inter-services-public-relations","tag-ispr","tag-pak-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59929","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=59929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59930,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59929\/revisions\/59930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}