Security officials raided a militant hideout in Kulachi area of Dera Ismail Khan on Sunday and seized a huge cache of ammunition, including suicide jackets and hand grenades.
The raid was part of a search operation that started after an attack on former MNA Faqir Jamshed who was also the Sajjada Nashin (Pir) of Dera Ismail Khan’s Noori Darbar Kulachi shrine.
During the raid, the police seized two suicide jackets, 17 hand grenades and 13 remote control receivers.
An exchange of fire also took place between security officials and four suspected terrorists but they managed to escape on motorcycles.
Faqir Jamshed was a geologist-turned-Sufi who then raised his own militia against the Taliban before he joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Jamshed’s death was the second major political assassination in DI Khan over the past two years.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s law minister Israrullah Gandapur was killed in a suicide attack in October last year during Eid celebrations at his house.
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