ISLAMABAD, June 25: Pakistan Army officer Major Syed Moiz Abbas Shah, who claimed to have captured Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman after his jet was shot down in a dogfight in 2019, was killed in a clash with Taliban militants in the Sararogha area of South Waziristan near the Afghan border.
The army troops killed 11 terrorists belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and wounded seven others in the same operation. Major Syed Moiz Abbas was commissioned into the Pakistani Army in 2011 and later became part of the Special Services Group (SSG) and was currently serving in the volatile Waziristan region.
He was later found to be the same officer who had captured Abhinandan and saved him from mob violence. The TTP, also known as the Pakistan Taliban, was set up in 2007 to impose its strict brand of Islam across Pakistan. (PTI)
