The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), has gunned down two of the four alleged militants involved in the shootout with the Dolphin Police, which claimed life of one of the policeman, while leaving another one injured. The incident took place earlier this week.
It is to be noted that, the information about the encounter had been shared by the CTD on Sunday, adding that the suspects belonged to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and were killed during an exchange of fire between their accomplices and CTD.
As per the details shared by the CTD, the suspects were wanted in eight cases in Dera Ismail Khan and identified as Naseebullah and Ehsanullah. They were involved in other ‘anti-national activities’, including an attack on convoy and were wanted by the police.
During the encounter, the officials of the CTD were successful in recovering arms and explosives from the militants.
About the incident
Notably, during the last week, one Dolphin police official was killed and injured another during the pursuit of a vehicle on Murree Road in which the four suspects were travelling. After which, the police had managed to nab two suspects who were later handed over to the CTD along with the mobile phone, some photographs , a copy of the arms license, and the treatment record from the private hospital on the Peshawar Road that were recovered from the car of the suspects.
According to the sources, the suspects worked for the TTP but they were neither the foot soldiers not its commanders. They had said that the car in which they were travelling was hired on rent from Dera Ismail Khan, and the vehicle was also shifted to the CTD office.
The sources said the shootout between the Dolphin Force officials and the suspects took place when they were heading back to Tank after getting treatment from a private hospital on Peshawar Road.
It is to be hereby mentioned that, despite the promises of the security agencies on eradicating the crime rate across Pakistan. It is still in presence, and the recent incident also shows that the militant groups are having some kind of strong footholds across the state.
