PESHAWAR, Pakistan: The search operations continue to apprehend the culprits involved in yesterday’s terrorist attack on the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Camp in Badaber area of Peshawar.
On Friday morning, a group of heavy-armed terrorists stormed the PAF Camp in Badaber. In the attack by the terrorists and the subsequent exchange of fire between the Pakistan army personnel and attackers, at least 29 people including 22 PAF personnel, three soldiers and four civilians were killed while 25 others got injuries.
All 13 terrorists were killed in the operation carried out by the security personnel against them.
The sources said that the security forces carried out search operations on Saturday in Badaber, Matni and surrounding areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and rounded up several suspects including the Afghan nationals.
In a media briefing on Friday, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Chief Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa told that a splinter group of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was behind the PAF Camp attack, and they had come from Afghanistan.
Bajwa said that the Badhaber attack was planned and being controlled from Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the owners of the van – which was used in the PAF Badaber Comp attack – Asif and Akmal have also been detained from Sadiqabad.
In addition, a case has been registered by the Counter Terrorism Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against terrorists regarding Badaber attack after the PAF wrote a letter to the department asking it to do so.
