RAWALPINDI : Pakistan’s security forces have recovered a huge cache of explosives, weapons and ammunition during an intelligence-based operation targeting terrorist hideouts in North Waziristan, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Monday.
According to the military’s media wing, the operation was conducted on November 8 in Muzak village, located on the southern fringes of Mir Ali, against reported hideouts of Indian proxy Fitna Al Khwarij.
During the operation, security forces sanitised two terrorist hideouts established inside mosques and recovered a large quantity of prepared Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), explosive-making materials, weapons and ammunition.
The ISPR stated that the terrorists had deliberately used places of worship to store explosives and establish torture cells, describing the act as a desecration of mosques and a blatant disregard for the fundamental teachings of Islam.
The statement further said that the terrorists, allegedly backed by the Afghan Taliban, had nothing to do with Islam, adding that their distorted interpretation and misuse of religion were rejected by the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan.
A sanitisation operation is currently underway to eliminate any remaining terrorist hideouts in the area.
The ISPR reaffirmed that the counterterrorism campaign under the vision of “Azm-e-Istehkam”, approved by the Federal Apex Committee on the National Action Plan, would continue with full force to eradicate foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country.
