Other MoA event in Balochistan, Surkhab in Pishin District area, Pakistan on Wed 30th August 2023

The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) shot dead four Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists during a raid on terrorist hideout in Surkhab area of Pishin District in Balochistan on August 30, reports Dawn. A statement issued by the CTD said the Quetta CTD received information from a credible source that “notorious TTP sharpshooter” Shakar Din alias Umar Khalid, along with his other associates, was “spotted at a hideout in Surkhab Muhajir Camp in Pishin, and he fully armed, in preparation of another terrorist attack”. Seeing the CTD personnel, terrorists opened fire and in a retaliatory fire four of the terrorists were killed. The statement identified Din’s associates as Ahmadullah, Aminullah and an Afghan citizen, Abdul Fateh. It added that they had been involved in various terrorist activities as part of the TTP and at the behest of Pir Ainuz Zaman Akhunzada. Arms and ammunition were recovered from the possession of the killed terrorists.