RAWALPINDI
\nSecurity forces killed 10 terrorists and injured eight others during three different engagements in North Waziristan district, the military\u2019s media wing said on Sunday.
\nAccording to a statement by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), an intelligence based operation was conducted by the security forces in the Spinwam area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s North Waziristan District.
\n\u201cDuring the conduct of the operation, own troops effectively engaged khwarij\u2019s location and after intense fire exchange, two Khwarij were sent to hell.
\nIn the second incident, the ISPR said that a group of khawarij were attempting to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border when they were intercepted by security forces in the same area of North Waziristan.
\n\u201cOwn troops effectively engaged and thwarted their attempt to infiltrate,\u201d the statement said. \u201cTwo khawarij were \u2018sent to hell\u2019, while two others were injured.\u201d
\nA sanitisation operation was being conducted to eliminate any other Khawarij found in the area, it added.
\nSecurity forces earlier killed six terrorists and injured six others during another intelligence-based operation (IBO) in North Waziristan\u2019s Spinwam area, the ISPR said in a separate statement released on Sunday morning.
\nPer the statement, security forces conducted the IBO upon the \u201creported presence\u201d of terrorists.
\n\u201cWeapons and ammunition were also recovered from killed Khwarij who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against the security forces as well as killing of innocent civilians,\u201d the ISPR said.
\nIn July, the government, through an official notification, had designated the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as Fitna al Khawarij, while mandating all institutions to use the term khariji (outcast) when referring to the perpetrators of terrorist attacks on Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RAWALPINDI Security forces killed 10 terrorists and injured eight others during three different engagements in North Waziristan district, the military\u2019s media wing said on Sunday. According to a statement by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), an intelligence based operation was conducted by the security forces in the Spinwam area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s North Waziristan District. \u201cDuring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-442744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n