Action of the Pakistani army. Fighters “sent to hell”

At night in the Pakistani province of Chajber Pasztunchwa, near the border with Afghanistan, the security forces killed 54 fighters – Pakistan's army told on Sunday. The killed were to be preparing to carry out terrorist attacks.

The army said that intelligence reports show that the killed fighters were “khwariji” – this expression is used by the government to describe Pakistani Taliban. Weapons and significant supplies of explosives were found at the fallen.

Without directly blaming anyone, the army said that the killed were sent by their “foreign clients” in order to carry out loud terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

“We sent 54 fighters to hell”

“Our forces effectively thwarted their attempt to infiltrate. As a result of the precise and skilful commitment of all fifty -four were sent to hell,” said the army in a statement, cited by the Pakistani portal Dawn.

There have never been so many victims in a single skirmish in a single skirmish in the anti -terrorist campaign – the portal emphasized.

The army stated that the attempt to infiltrate “at a time when India was preventing unjustified accusations against Pakistan” after a recent fatal attack on tourists in controlled by India Kashmir.

Attack in Kashmir

The escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan took place after a terrorist attack that occurred on Tuesday near the city of Pahalgam (in the area of ​​Jammu and Kashmir). 26 people were killed and 17 were injured.

India accused Pakistan of responsibility for this attack, which they described as “the most deadly attack on civilians in the region since 2000”. Pakistan immediately rejected these accusations, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif found them “unfounded” and demanded a “neutral investigation.”

Kashmir, inhabited mainly by Muslims, belongs partly to India and partly to Pakistan, but both countries are claiming to the whole region. An anti -infitic rebellion has been going on in Indian Kashmir since 1989, which has already cost the lives of tens of thousands of people. Pakistan accuses her of supporting India.

Pakistani minister: an attempt to distract attention

The Pakistani Minister of Information Attaullah Tatar said on foreign Sunday to the media that New Delhi blames Islamabad for an attack to distract the Pakistani security forces from the war at the western borders of the country.

On Saturday, the army's press services reported that two soldiers and 15 terrorists were killed in three separate skirmishes. According to the report of the Pakistani Institute of Conflict and Security Studies, in March the fights in this area intensified.

The Pakistani authorities attribute an increase in violence mainly allied with the Afghan Taliban of the TTP Tehrik-I-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Since in August 2021, the Taliban took power in Afghanistanmany TTP leaders and fighters found in this country.