LAKKI MARWAT: Police arrested two suspects and destroyed terrorists’ hideouts in the rural areas of Lakki Marwat district on Sunday.
“A search and strike operation led by the Lakki circle sub-divisional police officer was launched following information that terrorists affiliated with the Tipugul and Arshad Nawaz alias Mazegrey group were hiding in the mountainous terrain of the district,” said a police official.
He said that the commandoes of the Counter-Terrorism Department and Elite Force backed by armoured personnel carriers, along with a large police contingent, took part in the operation.
“Police expanded the operation to the mountains of Sheikh Khula, Abdulkhel, Shah Hasankhel, Surband and Wanda Khanagul areas where all suspicious places were thoroughly searched,” he claimed, adding that during the operation, the law enforcers destroyed the hideouts of the wanted terrorists, Junaid and Manzoor, in the Abdulkhel area.
He said that Junaid and Manzoor were affiliated with the Tipugul and Arshad Nawaz alias Mazegrey group, and they were wanted by the law enforcement agencies in the kidnapping and targeted killing of the FC, Anti-Narcotics Force and prison police officials.
”Police also seized arms and ammunition and motorcycles from the hideouts of terrorists,” he added.
Separately, a proclaimed offender was killed in a shootout with police in the Tajori area on Sunday.
District police officer Sajjad Ahmad Sahibzada told a presser at the Naurang police station that following credible information about the presence of the wanted outlaw, Naseer, in the remote Sulemankhel area, a police contingent was dispatched to the locality to ensure his arrest.
He said that when policemen reached near his hideout, the outlaw opened fire to escape arrest, triggering a gunfight.
The DPO said that an exchange of fire lasted for some time and afterwards the cops recovered the body of the criminal.
He said that the law enforcers seized an assault rifle, a hand grenade and ammunition from the place and shifted the body to the hospital.
Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2026
