Peshawar, June 16: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) tonight claimed to have killed 17 personnel of Pakistani forces and injured several others in 19 operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province between Sunday and Monday.
In addition to these 17 personnel, there were dozens of other personnel of the Pakistani forces, who were likely killed in attacks and counter attacks by TTP, but their exact figure was not known.
The biggest casualty to the Pakistani forces was casued in South Waziristan, where a convoy of paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) was ambushed in Tui, according to TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani.
He said 7 FC personnel were killed and 4 injured in this attack on the main road of Maidanki.
One more FC personnel was killed and another injured in a TTP sniper attack on a military post in Umarkhel in Tui, he said.
In North Waziristan district, 3 personnel of Pakistani forces were killed in an ambush on a patrol party consisting of three army vehicles in Spindog in Garyum tehsil, Khorasani said.
In the same district, TTP also carried out two attacks — one using a Grenad launcher and another using a missile — on military camps in Hasukhel and Shamikhel, respectively, in Mir Ali Tehsil, he said.
There is a strong possiblity of casualties in these attacks the spokesman said.
In Orakzai district, 2 soldiers were killed in two separate sniper attacks on the Endara military post in Kalayah.
In Kurram district, a major counter-attack was carried out on a police station in Mirbagh, in which 2 police personnel were killed and 6 injured, according to the spokesman.
Besides, 16 policemen, including the injured, surrendered to the TTP fighters, he said.
A military convoy coming to the aid of the police station was also ambushed by TTP fighters, due to which the convoy’s progress was stopped, he said.
The captured police station building was then set on fire by the TTP men and reduced to ashes.
In this attack, TTP recovered a large amount of weapons and other equipment from the enemy, Khorasani said.
The seized items included 18 Kalashnikov rifles, 3 light Kalashnikov rifles, 3 NG-1 rifles, 1 guerrilla machine gun, 3 rocket launchers, 1 Russian sniper rifle, 3 night vision lasers, 3 pistols, 30 rocket launcher shells, 33 boxes of NG-1 bullets, 6 boxes of Kalashnikov bullets, 116 Kalashnikov magazines and 3 Vehicles.
In Makran district, the Pakistani military carried out an attack on a TTP camp in Panjgur last night and in retaliatory action, “there were reports of heavy casualties and material losses of Zionist forces” the spokesman said.
The TTP fighters also ambushed a convoy coming from the city to help the camp, in which several vehicles in the convoy were completely destroyed and all the personnel on board were killed and injured, he said.
In this battle, TTP lost one fighter, identified as Taqbalullah, he said.
In Dera Ismail Khan Province, the TTP fighters ambushed a military convoy of 7 vehicles in Daraban, the spokesman said, adding “all the personnel on board five vehicles were killed and injured in the attack and the vehicles were also completely destroyed.”
In Peshawar, a Pakistani soldier was killed in a sniper attack on a military post.
The spokesman said the TTP also carried out a major attack on Punjab province of Pakistan, significantly using a 1,000-kilogram ‘Al-Farooq’ missile, manufactured by the Engineering Department of TTP.
He added that “dozens of officials” of Pakistani military were killed and injured in this attack on the Jhangi check post located in Taunsa Sharif area of Dera Ghazi Khan district of South Punjab province.
The post was completely destroyed, he said.
“It should be remembered that the people of the area had become quite fed up with this check post,” Khorasani said.
He said the TTP had attacked the said post several times earlier but it was completely destroyed in a successful missile attack yesterday.
Khorasani also said that “the cowardly (Pakistan) army carried out a drone attack on a house in Tendo Tandoori village of Sadda district of Kurram province on Sunday night, in which 4 members of the family were martyred and eight were injured.”
The killed persons include women and children, he said, adding 4 of the injured are in critical condition and have been shifted to Peshawar. (NVI)
