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Pakistan Army kills two high profile JuA terrorists

By Web Desk
February 23, 2017

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army has achieved a major success in newly launched Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad as two high profile terrorists of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) were killed at Afghan border, security sources said.

Pakistan Army announced on Wednesday to launch operation ‘Radd-ul- Fasaad’ against terrorists all over the country.

Security sources said the terrorists killed in the shelling of Pakistan Army at Afghan border were mastermind of recent militant attack in Lahore that claimed 13 lives including two high police officials.

Both terrorists were affiliated to Jamaat-ul-Ahrar. One of them has been identified as Hikmatyar alias Qari Zubair.

Zubair was coordinator of hostile agency and incharge of Punjab Transit Camp in Afghanistan.

The second includes Wajihullah alias Ahrar, who was sponsored by a hostile intelligence agency for terrorist activities in Pakistan, security sources said.

He was mastermind of recent suicide attack in Lahore and earlier incidents in Punjab, they added.

Troops and police have been on high alert in Pakistan after last week´s wave of attacks, including one in Lahore and another on a Sufi shrine in Sindh province, killed more than 100 people.

After the attacks, Islamabad launched a violent crackdown, with Pakistani forces saying they had killed dozens of "terrorists" and carried out strikes on militant hideouts along the border with Afghanistan.

Prior to last week´s attacks, Pakistani forces have been engaged in a series of offensives, mainly in the country´s troubled northwestern tribal region, in pursuit of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants.