{"id":51014,"date":"2024-01-22T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/7-terrorists-killed-in-intelligence-based-operation-in-zhob-ispr\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:22:23","slug":"7-terrorists-killed-in-intelligence-based-operation-in-zhob-ispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/7-terrorists-killed-in-intelligence-based-operation-in-zhob-ispr\/","title":{"rendered":"7 terrorists killed in intelligence-based operation in Zhob: ISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Seven terrorists were killed on Monday during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Sambaza sector of Balochistan\u2019s Zhob district, near the Pak-Afghan border, the army\u2019s media wing said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), army troops \u201ceffectively surrounded and engaged fleeing terrorists\u201d during an exchange of fire.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, seven militants were killed, it added. The ISPR said that the militants \u201cremained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces as well as killing of innocent civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It added that arms, ammunition, and explosives were also recovered from the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanitisation operation is being carried out to eliminate any other terrorists present in the area. Security forces of Pakistan are determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism,\u201d the ISPR said.<\/p>\n<p>On January 13, four militants including a \u201chigh-value terrorist\u201d were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1805548\/four-militants-including-high-value-terrorist-killed-in-separate-kp-operations-ispr\">killed<\/a> in two separate operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A day prior, security forces had also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1805331\/2-terrorists-killed-in-north-waziristan-intelligence-based-operation-ispr\">killed<\/a> two terrorists in an IBO in the province\u2019s North Waziristan district.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has witnessed an uptick in terror activities in the past year, especially in KP and Balochistan after the banned militant Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1723647\">ended its ceasefire<\/a> with the government in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1802262\">annual security report<\/a> issued by the Centre for Research and Security Studies, Pakistan witnessed 1,524 violence-related fatalities and 1,463 injuries from 789 terror attacks and counter-terror operations in 2023 \u2014 marking a record six-year high.<\/p>\n<p>KP and Balochistan were the primary centres of violence, accounting for over 90 per cent of all fatalities and 84pc of attacks, including incidents of terrorism and security forces operations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven terrorists were killed on Monday during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Sambaza sector of Balochistan\u2019s Zhob district, near the Pak-Afghan border, the army\u2019s media wing said. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), army troops \u201ceffectively surrounded and engaged fleeing terrorists\u201d during an exchange of fire. As a result, seven militants were killed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/_img\/social-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}