The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday killed a wanted terrorist during a search operation on the border area of district Lower Dir and Bajaur in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, an official statement said.
As per details, the CTD and an intelligence agency got a tip-off that a group of terrorists had gathered at a location named Tangay Lunday Shah to carry out a major terrorist activity.
Special raiding teams of CTD Malakand and intelligence agency were soon formed and started a search and strike operation at the aforementioned location.
During the raid, the terrorists shot at the raiding teams. Resultantly, the teams resorted to retaliatory fire. The shootout between the law enforcers and terrorists continued for some time.
When the firing stopped, the teams searched the location and found terrorist named Hayat Mohammad aka Salman dead. The killed terrorist was wanted by the CTD for over a dozen terrorism-related cases. During the body search, a fake CNIC card in the name of Abdul Khaliq s/o Behram Khan was found in the pocket of the killed terrorist.
Hayat was involved in the IED attack on JUI-F’s former Tehsil Nazim Syed Badshah. The killed terrorist had confessed the responsibility for the attack as well. Badshah and six others had sustained serious injuries during the attack. The provincial government had put a reward of Rs2 million for the arrest of the terrorist. A large number of police personnel as well as CTD officials are present at the location and the search operation is underway for the arrest of other terrorists.
