3 personnel martyred as attack on Rangers facility in Karachi ‘foiled’: ISPR

Three personnel were martyred during a fire exchange after a terrorist attack last night on a Rangers facility in Karachi was “decisively foiled”, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Sunday. The attack on the Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) Camp, located in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, was carried out by terrorists “belonging to Indian proxy, Jamaat ul Ahrar”, the ISPR said in a statement. The military’s media affairs wing added: “The assailants, after a blast at [the] main gate of the Camp, attempted to breach the perimeter security. “However, their nefarious designs were decisively foiled by the vigilant and resolute response of Rangers troops, eliminating three kharijis and capturing one khariji, who is an Afghan national, in injured condition.” The Pakistani government uses the term khariji (outcast) when referring to the perpetrators of terrorist attacks on Pakistan. The ISPR further said that during the fire exchange, “three brave sons of soil, rendered the ultimate sacrifice and embraced martyrdom in the line of duty, while four soldiers are injured”. The military asserted that “Pakistan shall undertake retribution operations against the perpetrators of this attack to avenge the martyrdom of its soldiers”. Sanitisation operations were being conducted to eliminate any other “Indian-sponsored” terrorists in the area, ISPR said. It affirmed that the “relentless counterterrorism campaign under vision ‘Azm-i-Istehkam’ by security forces and law enforcement agencies of Pakistan will continue at full pace to wipe out the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country”. Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir expressed his “deepest condolences with the families of the brave soldiers”. “These sacrifices further reinforce our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our nation at all costs,” the statement said. ‘Heavy firing’ On Saturday night, it was reported that the attack on the local headquarters o