A security personnel was killed and four others injured on Sunday in terrorist attacks in South Waziristan and Bannu, respectively.
The security personnel died when terrorists opened fire on the Sra Rogha check post in South Waziristan. The attackers managed to flee the scene.
Soon after the attack, the security forces conducted a search operation in the area to arrest the miscreants.
Moreover, four security personnel were injured in the Bannu’s Daryaba area when a roadside bomb exploded after a security vehicle struck a landmine.
Sources said that the Pak Army vehicles were on routine patrolling in the militancy hit Spinwarm area of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) where the military operation (Zarb-e-Azb) is underway against extremists, when a single cabin vehicle hit a roadside-planted landmine. As a result of the explosion, the vehicle was damaged leaving four security personnel including Shahzad, Naek Babar, soldiers Saifullah and Jamal Din critically injured.
According to security sources, the injured were shifted to Bannu Combined Military Hospital for treatment. Security forces cordoned off the area after the explosion and launched a search operation in the area.
The semi-autonomous tribal areas on the Afghan border have been a hideout for Islamist militants of all stripes for years, including Al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban, as well as foreign fighters such as the Uzbeks and Uighurs.
Pakistan began a long-awaited push to clear insurgent bases from North Waziristan last June after a bloody Taliban attack on the Karachi airport finally sank faltering peace talks.
A security assessment report by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) claims that security forces have been proactive during the January-March 2015 quarter, mounting 312 actions against insurgents, while the latter carried out 232 militant activities.
Altogether 944 people were killed and another 619 wounded in the violent incidents. Security forces arrested 1,646-suspected militants in the operations, while the militants kidnapped 49 people during the quarter.
