RAWALPINDI: Two Pakistan Army soldiers embraced martyrdom during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) which also saw a “high-value terrorist” being killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Buner district on Saturday.
The security forces, as per the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), conducted the IBO on the reported presence of terrorists which resulted in the elimination of terrorist and ring leader Saleem alias “Rabbani” while two other militants sustained injuries in the gun battle.
As per the military’s media wing, Rabbani, who had an Rs. 5 million bounty on his head, was involved in numerous terrorist activities against the security forces as well as extortion and target killings of innocent civilians.
Meanwhile, the martyred soldiers have been identified as Lance Havildar Mudassar Mehmood (age 36; resident of district Rawalpindi) and Lance Naik Haseeb Javed (age 27; resident of district Poonch, AJ&K).
Havildar Mudassar and Lance Naik Haseeb have been serving in the Pakistan Army for 16 and five years, respectively with the latter being survived by his parents, widow and a daughter.
With the sanitisation operation underway to eliminate any other terrorists in the area, the security forces have reaffirmed their commitment to wipe out the scourge of terrorism.
