Security forces during recent operations in Miranshah and Mir Au in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) have not only flushed out the terrorists and gained control of the area but also seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition in the process.
According to a release of the ISPR here on Friday the arms captured by the security forces include mortars, rocket launchers, grenades, fuses, anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, improvised explosive devices as well as huge quantity of ammunition, explosives with electric improvised circuits, communication gadgetry, commando uniforms, foreign residential cards, training pamphlets, medicines and food items.
According to investigations, same kind of weapons and ammunitions were used in various terrorist acts elsewhere in the agency. The terrorists have been using these weapons indiscriminately that often fell on civilian population. Besides, there had been numerous instances where mine blasts by the terrorists caused death to innocent civilians and personnel of security forces.
Security forces also busted terrorists' den, planning and organising centre established in the hostel of Madrassah Gulshanul Aloom owned by Moulvi Abdul Khaliq near Miranshah, it added.
It said, over 100 terrorists have been killed by the security forces in the recent operations while nine others, including foreigners, have been arrested. Mastermind and chief of the involved group Maulvi Abdul Khaliq, who has close relations with Abdullah Mahsud, a wanted terrorist, flew away, it concluded.
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