Pakistan Taliban kill 6 security personnel in multiple attacks in Balochistan

The ISPR, Pakistan Army's media wing, said that the terrorists were supported by their facilitators from across the border

The notorious terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed the lives of six security personnel and injured a few others in the last two days by carrying out several attacks in the restive Balochistan province, Pakistan Army's media wing said on Sunday.

According to a statement released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a terrorist and a soldier were killed during an exchange of fire between militants and the security forces in an intelligence-based operation conducted in the Sambaza area of Zhob district.

It said the operation, launched on the basis of “credible information”, was continuing for the last 96 hours.

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The objective was to “deny terrorists the use of few suspected routes to move across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to sneak into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa along the interprovincial boundary and target citizens and security forces”, the statement said.

The ISPR, Pakistan Army's media wing, also said that the terrorists were supported by their facilitators from across the border.

In a separate incident in the Dannuk Gogdan area of Turbot, armed militants attacked a vehicle of the Frontier Corps on Saturday in which four soldiers were killed in the ensuing exchange of fire.