Four Indian-sponsored terrorists neutralised in Balochistan

RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed four terrorists in Mastung district of Balochistan, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday, as Pakistan have intensified its efforts to root out Indian-backed terrorism of all forms and manifestations.

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According to the ISPR, security forces on Friday “conducted an intelligence-based operation” in Mastung district of Balochistan “on reported presence of terrorists” belonging to Fitna al-Hindustan, the Indian proxy.

Fitna al-Hindustan is the term used to describe all the terrorist organisations — BLA, Majeed Brigade and others — carrying out terrorist attacks in Balochistan.

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It added that “four Indian-sponsored terrorists were sent to hell” after security forces “effectively engaged the terrorists’ location”, and “an intense fire exchange”.

“Weapons, ammunition and explosives were also recovered from the terrorists who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area,” the ISPR said.

A “sanitisation operation is being conducted to eliminate any other terrorist found in the area,” it said while reiterating the determination to wipe out the menace of Indian-sponsored terrorism from the country.

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Earlier this week, the ISPR had shared the news of eliminating 19 terrorists — Fitna al-Khawarij (the term used for TTP and other terrorist outfits) — in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Security forces killed 18 of these terrorists in Mohmand and North Waziristan — two of the merged districts of erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

One of them was eliminated in Bannu — a district in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that borders the former tribal belt.