ISLAMABAD: Security forces have gunned down five Pakistani Taliban militants in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, the Pakistani military said on Sunday, amid a surge in militancy in the region bordering Afghanistan.
The militants were killed in an intelligence-based operation in KP’s Lakki Marwat district, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing.
“Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from killed Indian-sponsored Khwarij (militants), who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area,” the ISPR said in a statement.
New Delhi did not immediately respond to the Pakistani military statement.
Earlier this week, six militants were killed in an encounter with counter-terrorism department (CTD) personnel in the same district, according to police. The militants were killed hours after six policemen were killed when a roadside blast hit their vehicle in Lakki Marwat.
