Security forces uncovered terrorist hideouts, torture cells and a large cache of explosives during an intelligence-based operation in Muzak village, on the southern outskirts of Mir Ali, North Waziristan, ISPR said on Monday.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, media wing of the Pakistan’s Armed Forces, the operation was conducted on November 8 against reported hideouts of terrorists belonging to Indian proxy Fitna al-Khwarij.
During the operation, security forces sanitized two hideouts established inside mosques and recovered a huge cache of prepared improvised explosive devices (IEDs), explosive-making materials, weapons and ammunition.
ISPR revealed that the terrorists had deliberately used the mosques to store explosives and operate torture cells, desecrating places of worship for their terrorist activities.
The military’s media wing described the use of mosques for such purposes as evidence of the terrorists’ disregard for the fundamental teachings of Islam. It said the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan firmly reject the group’s distorted interpretation and exploitation of religion.
ISPR also stated that the terrorists were being abetted by the Afghan Taliban, adding that their activities had nothing to do with Islam.
A sanitization operation is currently underway, with security forces searching the area to eliminate any remaining Indian-sponsored terrorist hideouts.
The military’s media wing reaffirmed that the counterterrorism campaign under the vision of Azm-e-Istehkam, approved by the Federal Apex Committee under the National Action Plan, would continue at full pace to eliminate foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country.
