Overview
- An improvised explosive device targeted a police vehicle near the Rasul Khel check post in Lakki Marwat’s Bettani/Shadi Khel area, killing at least six officers, with several reports saying a seventh later died, including SHO Sadr Azam.
- The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CTD says six suspected militants were killed in an intelligence-based operation in the Shagayi/Shagei area after a roughly 40‑minute firefight, with four Kalashnikovs, two pistols, eight grenades and an IED recovered.
- The military’s ISPR later reported a separate Lakki Marwat IBO that left five terrorists dead, noting weapons seized and a sanitisation effort under way to clear the area.
- In Kohat’s Lachi tehsil, a joint CTD–police operation killed six suspects during an exchange of fire and recovered arms, with the district police chief saying cordons and search operations are ongoing.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, President Asif Ali Zardari, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and KP leadership condemned the police blast and praised security forces, vowing continued counter-terrorism operations.