Rawalpindi: Security forces have eliminated 43 terrorists during intelligence-based operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over the past 48 hours, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday.According to the military's media wing, the operations were expanded to Mir Ali in North Waziristan and Orakzai district as part of ongoing efforts to dismantle terrorist networks.During intense exchanges of fire, security forces killed 35 terrorists belonging to the Indian-sponsored Fitna-al-Khawarij in Mir Ali, while another eight were eliminated in Orakzai.The ISPR said a large cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives, including homemade explosives and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), was also recovered during sanitization operations.The recovery of these materials thwarted the terrorists' plans to use them in terrorist activities, it added.Sanitization operations are continuing to eliminate any remaining terrorists in the affected areas.The ISPR said security forces and law enforcement agenc ies would continue their counterterrorism campaign under the vision of Azm-e-Istehkam, approved by the Federal Apex Committee under the National Action Plan, until the menace of foreign-sponsored terrorism was eliminated from the country.