PESHAWAR: Pakistani police said on Friday they killed a highly wanted militant commander in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, buried secretly by comrades after the shootout and later exhumed by authorities for identification.
Militant attacks across KP have surged since November 2022, when a fragile truce between the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and the government collapsed.
Lakki Marwat, where the incident took place, is situated on the edge of Pakistan’s tribal belt bordering Afghanistan and has seen frequent assaults by the TTP.
“A highly wanted TTP commander Sher Alam was killed in the Wanda Panjma area of the district in an intelligence-based targeted operation,” Bannu Regional Police Officer’s spokesperson Aamir Khan told Arab News.
“Following his death in an encounter with the police, the militant was buried secretly by his colleagues,” he said. “However, police subsequently exhumed his body to identify him. Later, he was confirmed as Sher Alam.”
