QUETTA: Three terrorists, including two high-value targets, were killed on Friday in an operation carried out by security forces in Kech district of Balochistan to hunt down those involved in late Wednesday night attacks on their two camps in Nushki and Panjgur.

Levies personnel along with security forces also launched a search operation in the Roghani area after a grenade attack on a check-post in the border town of Chaman left two Levies Force personnel and four civilians injured.

The ambush came as a grim reminder of the last week attack claimed by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in which a soldier of Levies Force was martyred.

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The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement issued late Friday evening explained that security forces conducted a follow-up operation in the Balgatar area of Kech and surrounded a makeshift hideout of the terrorists linked with the recent terrorist activities in Panjgur.

In the intelligence-based operation, security forces encircled a trench being used as hideout by terrorists and in an ensuing exchange of fire killed all the three terrorists later identified as Summair alias Bahar and Altaf alias Lalik besides the terrorist commander, Phailan Baloch, who was involved in attacks on security forces in Hoshab, Panjgur and other areas.

According to the military’s media wing, they were involved in terrorist activities across Balochistan. Also, a “cache of arms and ammunition was recovered from the hideout,” the ISPR stated.

Published in Dawn, February 5th, 2022