Daily Times

A Pakistan Army soldier has embraced martyrdom while seven terrorists were killed in two separate engagements in North Waziristan district on December 10-11, the military’s media wing said on Wednesday.

According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the security forces conducted an operation in the Miran Shah area of North Waziristan district on the “reported presence of khwarij [terrorists]”.

During the conduct of operation, it said, the security forces effectively engaged the terrorist location and “as a result of which four khwarij were killed”.

In another encounter in Spinwam area, the security forces successfully gunned down three more terrorists. However, during the intense fire exchange, Lance Naik Muhammad Amin, 34, a resident of district Faisalabad, embraced martyrdom. “Sanitisation operation is being conducted to eliminate any other kharji found in the area,” the ISPR said, adding that the security forces were determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism.