Grenade event in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dardoni in North Waziristan District area, Pakistan on Sat 10th December 2022

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and Security Forces (SFs) on December 10 killed four Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) terrorists in the mountainous area near the Pak-Afghan border of Dardoni in North Waziristan District, reports Dawn. According to a CTD press release, the terrorists from IS-K were killed in retaliatory fire by a team conducting an intelligence-based joint operation upon receiving a tip-off that the terrorists from Afghanistan were crossing the border. The slain terrorists were the IS-K’s local commander Mohammad Dawood Yaqoob, Abdullah Khan and Mohammad Laiq Piauddin. A fourth terrorist could not be identified. Two hand grenades, two Kalashnikov rifles, six magazine storages, two pistols and dozens of cartridges along with Pakistani currency, identification documents and other valuables were recovered from the possession of slain terrorists.