RAWALPINDI: The Counter-Terrorism department (CTD) on Thursday arrested nine terrorists such as the mastermind and seven facilitators involved in the lethal attack at the compound of protection forces in Dera Ismail Khan that left at the least 23 soldiers martyred in advance this month.
in step with the CTD documents available with Geo information, the mastermind concerned in the terrorist assault belongs to Daraban place of DI Khan while six terrorists concerned inside the attack hail from Afghanistan.
As per the files, Hasan alias Shakir, the terrorist who carried out the suicide attack, belongs to Afghanistan, and launched a video before the assault, even as the country wide identity card and abode of the opposite suicide bomber killed within the assault, Sifat Ullah Marwat, additionally set up that the attacker belongs to the neighbouring country.
Geo information has received documents of the suicide bomber Sifat Ullah, while the daddy of the suicide bomber Sifat Ullah has additionally showed his son’s connection with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban-led Afghan government).
in keeping with the documents, 5 terrorists of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Gandapur institution have been also embroiled on this assault. US-made guns and ammunition have been recovered as well from the terrorists.
as a minimum 23 soldiers embraced martyrdom and lots of others had been injured while six suicide bombers rammed an explosive-encumbered truck into a army base within the afflicted Daraban area of Dera Ismail Khan district early Tuesday, consistent with safety officers.
“In early hours of December 12, 2023, a group of six terrorists attacked a protection forces publish within the Daraban place of Dera Ismail Khan. The attempt to enter the publish changed into effectively thwarted, which compelled the terrorists to ram an explosive-laden automobile into the put up, followed by using a suicide bombing attack. The resulting blasts caused the disintegrate of the constructing, causing a couple of casualties; twenty-3 brave infantrymen embraced shahadat, even as all six terrorists were effectively engaged and sent to hell,” the Inter- services Public family members (ISPR) stated in a announcement. a bit-acknowledged militant group, Tehreek-e-Jihad-e-Pakistan (TJP), claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest assaults on Pakistani protection forces.
Their spokesman, Mullah Mohammad Qasim, despatched a assertion to the media, announcing a group in their suicide bombers, led with the aid of Maulvi Hasan Gandapur, stormed the navy compound at 2am. Gandapur reportedly rammed an explosive-weighted down vehicle into the constructing’s outer walls that brought on the principle building wherein the squaddies have been residing to disintegrate.
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in the end, overseas Secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi summoned the Chargé d’Affaires of Afghan intervening time authorities to deliver Pakistan’s robust demarche within the context of the lethal terrorist assault in Daraban, and demanded that Kabul understand and give up the perpetrators of the attack and the TTP leadership in Afghanistan to the authorities of Pakistan.
“these days’s [Tuesday’s] terrorist attack is yet every other reminder of the terrorist chance to peace and balance inside the vicinity. We have to act resolutely with all our collective would possibly to defeat this threat. On its element, Pakistan stays steadfast in its dedication to fight terrorism. The attack, whose obligation has been claimed by way of Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan, a terrorist organization affiliated with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), resulted in a couple of causalities, along with shahadat of twenty-3 security personnel,” said the overseas workplace.
