Daily Times

Police foiled a terrorist attack on Chowanda police check-post in Kyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district Sunday night.

The terrorists opened fire on the check-post but were forced to flee due to police’s retaliatory fire, the police officials said. The incident, which could have turned into a tragedy had the police not acted against it timely, took place at 9:00 pm. The police officials said no loss of life took place because of the terrorists’ firing. Police have launched a search operation in the area to capture the terrorists. The latest incident comes nearly a week after at least 25 soldiers were martyred in different terrorist incidents including a suicide attack in Dera Ismail Khan district on December 11-12 night, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) had said in a statement.

The military’s media wing said that heightened terror activities were witnessed in the KP’s region on the night of December 11-12, wherein a total of 27 terrorists were “sent to hell” during various operations. The military’s media wing had said a group of six terrorists attacked a security forces’ post in general area Daraban in DI Khan. It had said the attempt to enter the post was effectively thwarted which forced the terrorists to ram an explosive-laden vehicle into the post, followed by a suicide bombing attack. “The resulting blasts led to the collapse of the building, causing multiple causalities; twenty-three brave soldiers embraced shahadat, while all six terrorists were effectively engaged and sent to hell,” it added.