Undefined Explosive Device (UED) event in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Shaikh Khula, Lakki Marwat District area, Pakistan on Tue 24th September 2024

One Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ‘commander’ was killed in an operation in Shaikh Khula area of Lakki Marwat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on September 24, reports Dawn. A Police official under the condition of anonymity said that the operation was a secret operation that took place near a rain-fed watercourse in the rural locality. The official did not disclose more details about the operation. However, he said that the killed ‘commander’, identified as Waheed, was affiliated with the Tipu Gul group of the TTP. He said that the Waheed belonged to Wanda Kutana area and was wanted by Lakki Marwat and Bannu Police and the CTD in cases of targeted killing, extortion, bomb explosions and attacks on policemen and their installations. “The militant was included in the list of most wanted 73 terrorists recently released by the district police,” he added.