Four Levies personnel, driver martyred in K-P's DI Khan attack

At least five people, including four Levies personnel, were martyred when their vehicle came under attack in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) Dera Ismail Khan (DI Khan) district, Express News reported on Sunday.

According to Assistant Commissioner Daraban, the Levies team was ambushed while en route to recover a stolen vehicle in tehsil Daraban. A private driver accompanying the officers was also killed in the attack.

The bodies of the slain personnel and the driver were moved to Daraban hospital. Security forces have launched an investigation, but no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Pakistan’s security forces have been conducting widespread counterterrorism operations, particularly in KP and Balochistan, which border Afghanistan.

On Saturday, the military’s media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), reported that 23 militants were killed in separate operations in Balochistan. The operations also claimed the lives of 18 Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers in Mangocher during an attempt to clear militant roadblocks.

Reacting to the Balochistan operations, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to eliminating terrorist groups, calling them “proxies of foreign masters.”

“Those who act as terrorist proxies and disguise themselves as friends are well known to us,” Munir said during a visit to Balochistan.