{"id":15234,"date":"2025-07-28T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=15234"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:30:11","slug":"ctd-kills-3-ttp-terrorists-behind-attack-on-chinese-engineers-in-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=15234","title":{"rendered":"CTD kills 3 TTP terrorists behind attack on Chinese engineers in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists, including the mastermind behind a November 2024 attack on Chinese engineers, were killed in a counterterrorism operation in Karachi\u2019s Manghopir area on Monday, July 28, 2025. Officials from the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) confirmed the operation, which was conducted jointly with intelligence agencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The slain mastermind was identified as Zafran. Two accomplices were also killed during the raid on a house in Manghopir. The November 2024 attack, which targeted Chinese engineers at a textile mill in the SITE area, left two Chinese nationals wounded. While initially attributed to a verbal altercation between the engineers and a security guard, subsequent investigations revealed a targeted attack orchestrated by the TTP.<\/p>\n<p>The incident highlights the ongoing security concerns surrounding Chinese nationals and projects in Pakistan, particularly in the context of increased TTP activity following the end of a ceasefire in November 2022. A 2024 report by the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NCTA) detailed 20 Chinese citizens killed and 34 injured in terrorist attacks since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This latest operation comes after several high-profile attacks targeting Chinese nationals in recent years. The increased violence has raised concerns in Beijing, particularly regarding the progress of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists, including the mastermind behind a November 2024 attack on Chinese engineers, were killed in a counterterrorism operation in Karachi\u2019s Manghopir area on Monday, July 28, 2025. Officials from the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) confirmed the operation, which was conducted jointly with intelligence agencies. The slain mastermind was identified as Zafran. Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15236,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234\/revisions\/15236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}