Pakistani security forces kill 9 militants in a raid near the Afghan border

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani information forces raided a militant hideout successful the restive northwest adjacent the Afghan border, sidesplitting 9 militants, the subject said Monday.

The subject said successful a connection that a high-value militant Shireen was among those insurgents killed successful Dera Ismail Khan, a metropolis successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

All the militants who were killed were the "Khwarij,” a operation the authorities uses for Pakistani Taliban, and Shireen was down past month's sidesplitting of an service Capt. Hasnain Akhtar successful a shootout successful the region, the subject said.

The Pakistani Taliban are known arsenic Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, oregon TTP. The radical is an state of the Taliban successful Afghanistan and has been emboldened since the Afghan Taliban seized powerfulness determination successful 2021.

Pakistan has witnessed a surge successful militant attacks, astir claimed by TTP.

Though Pakistan often conducts operations against the militants, the latest raid successful Dera Ismail Khan came a time aft troops killed 8 militants successful the northwestern North Waziristan territory arsenic they tried to transverse the borderline with Afghanistan.