Three soldiers embraced martyrdom during an operation targeting a terrorist location in the general area of Miranshah, North Waziristan district, the military's media wing reported on Sunday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated that "on the night of June 9/10, an exchange of fire took place between the [Pakistani] troops and terrorists" as a result of which three terrorists were killed while four others were injured.
"Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the killed terrorists," the statement added.
"However, during the intense exchange of fire, Subedar Asghar Ali (age 40 years, resident of Lakki Marwat District), Sepoy Naseem Khan (age 26 years, resident of Lakki Marwat District) and Sepoy Muhammad Zaman (age 22 years, resident of Abbottabad) having fought gallantly, embraced shahadat [martyrdom]," the ISPR said.
The military's media wing also said that "sanitisation" of the area was underway "to eliminate any other terrorists found in the area".
"Armed forces of Pakistan are determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve," the statement stressed.
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Earlier this month, Security forces killed two terrorists during an exchange of fire in general area Dossali, North Waziristan district.
Furthermore, On May 31, at least two terrorists were killed in an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) launched by security forces in the same area on the reported presence of militants.
Previously, it was reported that all the TTP terrorists who clashed with local residents and police in the mountains of Banjot area of Swat had managed to escape despite the police claims that they had been holed up in a cave.
During his maiden press conference, on April 25, as director general of the ISPR, Maj-Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry had revealed that a total of 8,269 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) had been conducted since January as a result of which 1,535 terrorists had been killed or apprehended.
Of these, 4,040 IBOs were conducted in Balochistan, another 3,591 in K-P, 119 in Punjab and 519 operations were conducted in Sindh. On average, over 70 IBOs were being conducted daily by the army, police and LEAs since January, he continued.
Subsequently, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) registered a decline of 11.9 per cent in incidents of terrorism during the month of April 2023 due to the strategy of prevention through detection by the CTD.
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