Security forces clear two mosque-based militant hideouts in North Waziristan
ISPR says the intelligence-based operation in Mozak village, south of Mir Ali, recovered improvised explosive devices, bomb-making material, arms and ammunition.
Security forces cleared two militant hideouts set up inside mosques in Mozak village, in the southern outskirts of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, and recovered a large quantity of explosives, arms and ammunition, the military's media wing said.
The Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement released on Monday that the operation was carried out on intelligence. Aaj News reported that the raid was conducted on 8 November. The village is in the southern outskirts of Mir Ali, in the North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
ISPR said the hideouts belonged to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which Pakistani officials officially call Fitna al-Khawarij. The recoveries listed in the statement were improvised explosive devices, material used to make explosives, weapons and ammunition.
The statement said the militants had deliberately established their hideouts inside mosques and had also run what it called centres of violence at those places. It said the use of places of worship in this way showed indifference to the basic teachings of Islam.
Security forces were continuing a clearance operation in the area to remove other suspected militant hideouts, ISPR said.
The statement placed the raid under Azm-e-Istehkam, the counter-terrorism vision approved by the federal apex committee on the National Action Plan. Under it, ISPR said, the counter-terrorism campaign by security forces and law enforcement agencies would continue at full speed to eliminate what it described as the threat of externally sponsored and supported terrorism from the country.
Aaj News reported that ISPR also said in the statement that Fitna al-Khawarij had no connection with Islam and that these elements had the support of the Afghan Taliban.
The ISPR statement did not mention any casualties or any arrests.
How the reports differ
Aaj News alone reported that the operation was carried out on 8 November and placed the village in the southern outskirts of Mir Ali, spelling it Mazk; the BBC Urdu report gave no date for the raid. Aaj News also carried ISPR's assertion in the statement that the militants have the support of the Afghan Taliban, a claim the BBC Urdu account did not include. The BBC Urdu report alone linked the operation to Azm-e-Istehkam and to the federal apex committee on the National Action Plan, and it described the recovered material as including explosives-making equipment.
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