A statement issued by the military’s media wing ISPR said security forces carried out the first operation in the Tank district, where a highly wanted militant, Rehmat­ullah alias Badar Mansur, and another militant, Amjad alias Babri, were killed, reported Dawn News.

The statement read that the second operation was conducted in the South Waziristan district, where an intense exchange of fire took place between security forces and militants.

According to ISPR, seven terrorists died during the exchange.

Weapons, ammunition and explosives were also recovered from the killed militants, who remained actively involved in numerous militant activities in the area against the security forces as well as extortion and target killing of innocent civilians, the ISPR were quoted as saying by Dawn News.