Overview
- The Counter Terrorism Department, which moved on intelligence late Tuesday near Peshawar's Northern Bypass, killed two suspects in an exchange of fire.
- Police said the pair had taken part in the killing of a CTD constable, and officers recovered the slain constable’s mobile phone from them.
- Officials said one of the dead men was wanted in at least 11 terrorism cases that included attacks which killed five police personnel.
- Several accomplices escaped in the dark, and police did not provide their identities or a precise number.
- Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has seen repeated militant attacks in recent years, and CTD raids are a core tool the provincial police use to disrupt such networks.