Police kill wanted TTP commander Saifullah in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa operation
Two policemen were slightly injured when the commander threw a grenade during the raid in Bara Sheikhan, police said, and both were treated at the scene.
Police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed a wanted commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in an operation in Bara Sheikhan, Express News and Aaj News reported. Police identified him as Saifullah and said he was wanted by the police and the Counter Terrorism Department in several serious cases.
Two policemen were slightly hurt during the operation. According to police, Saifullah threw a grenade, and the two officers received minor injuries and were given first aid at the scene.
Police said Saifullah had been living in Afghanistan for the past three years to avoid arrest and had recently been appointed commander of a militant formation before returning to Pakistan to carry out attacks.
According to CTD records cited in the reports, he was involved in several direct attacks on security checkposts in the Maidanak area as well as in improvised explosive device blasts at Ali Masjid in the Jamrud area.
Zulfiqar Hameed, the inspector general of police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, praised the policemen who carried out the operation. Express News reported him as saying that officers who killed the commander and saved hundreds of innocent lives were an asset to the nation. He said operations would continue until the soil was cleared of the last terrorist.
The governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's adviser for information and public relations commended the security forces for the killing of terrorists during an operation in the province, UrduPoint reported. Its report could not be retrieved in full, and its headline did not name the commander.
Aaj News described Saifullah as an alleged terrorist commander and said only that he had been based in Afghanistan for a long time, without giving the three-year figure. It also did not mention the grenade.
No date for the operation was given in the reports, and the police account of Saifullah's role and movements could not be independently verified.
How the reports differ
UrduPoint led with the adviser to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor for information and public relations praising the security forces, and its headline did not name the man killed. Express News carried the CTD record, the three-year stay in Afghanistan and the inspector general's remark that the policemen were an asset to the nation. Aaj News called Saifullah an alleged terrorist commander and said only that he had lived in Afghanistan for a long time, without the three-year figure, and it did not mention the grenade.
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