QUETTA: An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded while Army was conducting an intelligence-based clearance operation in Kahan area of Balochistan resulting in martyrdom of five army men including a captain and four sepoys.

Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR), in its press release stated, “Captain Fahad along with four other brave sons of soil Lance Naik Imtiaz, Sepoy Asghar, Sepoy Mehran and Sepoy Shamoon have embraced Shahadat, laying their lives in defence of motherland against an externally perpetrated threat of terrorism”. “Operation was underway in Kahan area of Balochistan since December 2022”, statement added. Earlier, a solider was martyred and two others injured during heavy exchange of fire with terrorists in an intelligence-based operation in Sambaza area of Zhob, Balochistan.

In statement, Inter Services Public Relations said an operation had been initiated in area for last 96 hours to deny terrorists use of few suspected routes to move across Pak-Afghan Border to sneak into Khyber Pakhtunkwa along interprovincial boundary and target citizens and security forces.

 “As result of continuous surveillance and sanitisation of area, group of terrorists was intercepted in early hours. During establishment of blocking positions to deny them escape routes, terrorists opened fire onto security forces”, reads statement.

During gunfight, one terrorist was killed, while Sepoy Haq Nawaz embraced martyrdom and two other soldiers got injured. Terrorists were supported by their facilitators from across Border as well through fire, it said. “Sanitisation operation continues in area to apprehend remaining perpetrators,” ISPR said.

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 26 2022

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