Two fear mongers, engaged with the 2021 Dasu Dam assault, were killed on Friday by their associates as they were being moved from Sahiwal Prison due to a danger ready, a proclamation from the Punjab Counter-Illegal intimidation Division (CTD) said.
In the year 2021, a bus attack near the Dasu hydropower plant in the Upper Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa resulted in the deaths of thirteen people, including nine engineers from China and four Pakistanis.
Due to security concerns and a threat alert issued by the interior ministry, the statement states that a total of five terrorists, including the masterminds of the Dasu attack, Muhammad Hussain and Ayaz, were being transferred from the jail to another location in two police vans.
According to the statement, which cited a spokesperson for the CTD, “unknown terrorists attacked one of the police vans to free their accomplices from police custody” as the police van approached the Samundri Road.
It said, “Two terrorists involved in the Dasu Dam attack were killed as a result of their firing,” and that the two had been given life sentences.
The statement added that the police and CTD personnel were unharmed during the attack.
Earlier, the CTD stated that 134 intelligence-based operations conducted throughout Punjab resulted in the arrest of 18 terrorists.
According to a digital database that is kept up by the Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), an Islamabad-based think tank, 45 terrorist attacks were committed across the country in September, up from 59 in the previous month.
In KP, four terrorists were killed: The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Thursday that security forces killed four terrorists in two separate operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on October 9 and 10.
Security forces carried out an intelligence-based operation on the reported presence of terrorists on October 9 in the general area of Janikhel, Bannu District, according to the military’s media wing.
The statement stated, “During the conduct of the operation, after an intense exchange of fire, two khawarij were sent to hell.”
The statement added that security forces “effectively engaged khawarij location and in the ensuing fire exchange, two more khawarij were sent to hell” in another operation that took place on October 10 in the general area of Hassan Khel, North Waziristan District.
According to the statement, “weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the killed khawarij, who continued to be actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against the security forces as well as abductions and target killing of innocent civilians.”
“As security forces are determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the country,” it said, adding that a sanitization operation was being carried out in the area to get rid of any other kharji that might be there.
Through an official notification issued in July, the government designated the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as Fitna al Khawarij and mandated that all institutions use the term Khariji, which means “outcast,” when referring to the terrorists who attacked Pakistan.
