The Pakistani security forces killed 54 activists who tried to cross the country of Afghanistan, the army announced on Sunday, marking one of the deadliest murders in recent years.
In a statement, the army said that intelligence reports indicated that the militants killed were “Khwarij” – a sentence that the government uses for the Pakistani Taliban.
Without directly blaming anyone, the army said that the insurgents killed had been sent by their “foreign masters” to carry out high -level terrorist attacks inside Pakistan.
The insurgents were spotted and killed near the former Pakistani Taliban bastion near northern Waziristan, a district in the northwest of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa along the Afghan border.
The army said that the infiltration attempt had come “at a time when India levels base against Pakistan” following a recent deadly striker against the tourists of the cashmere controlled by India.
In recent months, Pakistan has increased violence, mainly blamed in the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
It is a separate group but combined with the Afghan Taliban, who took power in Afghanistan in August 2021.
Many TTP leaders and fighters have found a sanctuary in Afghanistan since then.
On Sunday, Pakistan Minister of Information, Attaullah Tatar, told foreign media that New Delhi had blamed Islamabad for the tourist attack in order to distract Pakistan security forces from their concentration on war on its Western borders.
