Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti said on Thursday that terrorists get “state patronage” in Afghanistan, from where they “attack us”.
Terrorists were provided “safe havens” and places to run training camps in Afghanistan, he said while responding to a question during a press conference in Islamabad.
He highlighted that many among the recently killed terrorists were from Afghanistan.
The CM then called on the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan to abide by the Doha agreement, in which “you committed not to let your soil be used against any country”.
Earlier in the press conference, he shared details of a intelligence-based operation conducted in Chagai yesterday, in which he two men were killed and another surrendered. He said one of the two killed “terrorists” was a lawyer by profession.
He detailed that the lawyer was traced following some arrests over the killing of Pakistan Air Force men on May 8 in Dal Badin. “We observed him for two to three months, and yesterday surrounded his house. Then, through a loud speaker, we asked him to surrender, and as soon as we did that, firing started from their end.”
A Federal Constabulary soldier was martyred, and retaliatory firing by security personnel led to a fire exchange which went on for two to three hours, he said, adding that eventually two of the “terrorists” were killed and their third companion surrendered.
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