Presumably they’re TTP or something related, though the article doesn’t say.
In a blurb the Inter Services Public Relations said: "On March 10, IBOs were conducted by security forces in North and South Waziristan districts. During conduct of the operations, five bad boyz were potted after intense fire exchange."The ISPR added that weapons, ammunition and a "large quantity of equipment" were also recovered from them.
"Pakistain Army is determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism from every inch of our territory with an unflinching resolve," the statement said.
The exchange of fire comes amid a surge in terrorist activities across the country, especially in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, since the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
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Pakistain (TTP) ended its ceasefire with the government in November.
On Wednesday, six bad boyz were potted by security forces in an IBO in North Waziristan’s Datta Khel area.
Last week, a controller of jacket wallahs was killed and two suspected
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Meanwhile, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the army was determined to eliminate the threat of terrorism from the country.
The statement also said that during the last three months, security forces had killed more than 150 terrorists in several special operations.
Security forces conducted 6,921 operations nationwide in the last three months, arresting at least 1,007 terrorists.
Only in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, around 1,960 operations have been conducted, of which 1,516 were area-domination operations, 301 were based on intelligence, and 143 were area-sanitization operations.
The statement read that only in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa were 89 militants killed, and 540 were detained due to security forces’ operations.