Speaking at a press conference in Quetta, the provincial minister said that TTP commanders have been identified as Nasrullah alias “Maulvi Mansoor” and Idris alias “Irshad
Terrorists Nasrullah and Idris have been arrested after a difficult operation,” Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langone said.
He further said: “India is behind terrorist attacks in the country and provides financial support to the militants.”
The arrests came a day after the federal cabinet approved Operation Azm-e-Istehkam a reinvigorated and re-energized national counter-terrorism drive decided by the National Action Plan’s Central Apex Committee.
Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif also ruled out any large-scale military operation under the vision Azm-e-Istehkam, saying that ongoing Intelligence-Based Operations (IBOs) will be intensified.
Speaking at the federal cabinet meeting called on to take the members into confidence about the prevailing ‘misunderstanding and speculations’ about the Azm-e-Istehkam, the prime minister had said that instead of any large-scale operation, the already ongoing intelligence-based kinetic operations would be energized.
PM Shehbaz said that the Azm-e-Istehkam is a multi-domain and whole-of-system national vision aimed at decisively rooting out the nebulous and shadowy presence of remnants of terrorists, and violent extremism.
“A large-scale armed operation would require displacement and the initiation of such an operation under Vision Azm-i-Istehkam is merely a misunderstanding.