Security forces have successfully recovered five abducted labourers from Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), reported ISPR on Thursday a day earlier.
As per details, security forces launched an intelligence based operation (IBO) in search of the five abducted labourers and successfully liberated the abductees.
With determination, security forces continued the pursuit of terrorists and on July 15, during another exchange of fire, successfully rescued five abducted labourers, said ISPR.
The operation was a part of a series of IBOs highly inhospitable terrain under extreme weather conditions, said the military spokesperson.
The development comes as a total of 16 labourers were abducted by unknown terrorists on June 27th last month, 10 of the abducted labourers were released by the militants earlier, whereas body of one abductee was recovered.
The security forces continuously tracked the terrorists and in an IBO on July 13th, three terrorists were killed, while Captain Basit Ali and Sepoy Hazrat Bilal embraced martyrdom.
Government sources say that a militant commander who had joined the so-called Islamic State (IS) group was involved in the kidnapping of the labourers. They said the kidnappers released video footage of the captives in which they demanded ransom for their release.
