PESHAWAR: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) foiled a major terror plot by killing a suicide bomber and his handler in an intelligence-based operation in the Shamshatoo area, located about 25 km southeast of Peshawar.
According to CTD officials, the suicide attacker had entered Pakistan from Afghanistan and was planning a large-scale terror strike in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Shamshatoo area, known for housing a significant Afghan refugee population since the 1980s, was being used as a base for the plot.
During the encounter, no casualties were reported among law enforcement personnel. A suicide vest, weapons, and ammunition were recovered from the site.
In a separate incident the same day, security forces eliminated two Indian-sponsored terrorists in Balochistan’s Duki district during an exchange of fire, as India continues to back cross-border terrorism in Pakistan.
These operations follow Saturday’s deadly suicide attack on a security convoy in North Waziristan’s Mir Ali area, which claimed the lives of 13 security personnel and injured three civilians. According to the ISPR, the attack was “planned by the terrorist state of India and executed through its proxy group Fitna al-Khawarij.”
