PM enquires after officers, soldiers injured in CTD Bannun operation
Rawalpindi_Prime Minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif met officers and soldiers at CMH Rawalpindi who got injured during CTD complex Bannu Operation, said a statement issued by Inter Services Public Relations Thursday.
PM paid tribute to the courage and valour of troops who cleared CTD complex Bannu.
PM said that the martyrs and their families have rendered supreme sacrifices for ensuring safety and security of people of Pakistan.
PM said that we are determined to fight out terrorism in its all forms and manifestations and breaking nexus between terrorists, their supporters and sympathisers till achieving a peaceful and stable environment.
Writ of the state will be established at all cost and no one will be allowed to derailed the hard earned gains of war on terror achieved through unparalleled sacrifices of the Nation and valiant Armed Forces, PM said.
Earlier, security forces continued operation against a group of terrorists who attacked the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) compound.
The forces conrdoned off the Cantonment area and suspended internet communication. There were reports that one policeman was killed and three other security pesonnel suffered injuries in the incident. Sources claimed that the suspects were demanding their safe air evacuation to Afghan border.
The suspects also held interrogators hostage.
According to AFP, more than 30 Pakistan Taliban militants were holding several officers hostage on Monday after breaking free from custody and seizing a police station, officials said.
Members of the Tehreek–e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group — separate from the Afghan Taliban but with a similar hardline Islamist ideology — overpowered their jailers on Sunday and snatched weapons.
The militants, held on suspicion of terrorism, are demanding safe passage to Afghanistan, Muhammad Ali Saif, a spokesman for the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, said in a statement late Sunday.
A senior government official in Bannu, where the incident is unfolding near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan s former self-governed tribal areas, said hostages were still being held after a failed operation to free them.
“During the interrogation, some of them snatched guns from the policemen and later took the entire staff hostage,” he told AFP, on condition of anonymity.
“They want us to provide them safe passage via a ground route or by air. They want to take all the hostages with them and to release them later on the Afghan border or inside Afghanistan.”
The TTP claimed responsibility for the incident and demanded authorities provide safe passage to border areas.
“Otherwise, the entire responsibility of the situation will be on the military,” the TTP said in a statement.
