{"id":59260,"date":"2024-02-12T16:22:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/2-terrorists-killed-in-intelligence-based-operation-in-kps-mardan-ispr\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:22:05","slug":"2-terrorists-killed-in-intelligence-based-operation-in-kps-mardan-ispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/2-terrorists-killed-in-intelligence-based-operation-in-kps-mardan-ispr\/","title":{"rendered":"2 terrorists killed in intelligence-based operation in KP\u2019s Mardan: ISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two terrorists were killed by security forces during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Mardan district, the army\u2019s media wing said on Monday night.<\/p>\n

According to a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces conducted an IBO in the district on the reported presence of terrorists.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the conduct of the operation, after an intense fire exchange, two
\nterrorists were sent to hell,\u201d the ISPR said.<\/p>\n

It added that weapons, ammunition and explosives were also recovered from the slain terrorists, who \u201cremained actively involved in numerous terrorist
\nactivities in the area\u201d.<\/p>\n

It further said that a sanitisation operation is being conducted to eliminate any other terrorists found in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocal populace appreciated the operation and expressed their full support to security forces in eliminating the menace of terrorism,\u201d the ISPR statement concluded.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, the ISPR said a militant ringleader was killed<\/a> during an operation in KP\u2019s Khyber district.<\/p>\n

Last week, two militants, including a senior commander, were killed<\/a> in an IBO in North Waz\u00adiristan district.<\/p>\n

On February 5, 10 police officials were martyred and six others injured in a pre-dawn attack<\/a> by dozens of militants on a police station in Dera Ismail Khan, as violence escalated ahead of the general elections.<\/p>\n

On February 2, the ISPR said that 24 terrorists were killed during firefights and clearance operations in the Mach and Kolpur towns of Balochistan over three days.<\/p>\n

The statement had come after security for\u00adces had thwarted<\/a> three \u201ccoordinated attacks\u201d launched by terrorists using rockets and sophisticated weapons in Mach. The terrorists also targeted a hotel and six shops in the Kolpur area and set them on fire.<\/p>\n

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 ended its ceasefire<\/a> with the government in November 2022.<\/p>\n

According to an 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

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":"

Two terrorists were killed by security forces during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Mardan district, the army\u2019s media wing said on Monday night. According to a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces conducted an IBO in the district on the reported presence of terrorists. \u201cDuring the conduct of the operation, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59261,"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":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t