Overview
- ISPR reported that security forces killed 13 militants linked to the proxy group it calls Fitna al-Khawarij during two intelligence-based operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- Eight militants were killed in Bannu district and five in Kurram district after intense exchanges of fire, with follow-up sanitisation operations underway, according to the military.
- The CTD separately said three wanted suspects — Naimatullah, Abdul Rauf Afghani, and Mustafa — were killed in an intelligence-led operation in Dera Ismail Khan, with three Kalashnikovs, nine magazines and two grenades recovered.
- In Balochistan’s Kalat district, four militants were earlier killed in an operation that drew praise from President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who reiterated continued actions under Azm-e-Istehkam and the National Action Plan.
- Officials also reported that a key bridge over the Kurram River in North Waziristan was destroyed by explosives, severing access to Miranshah, with no claim of responsibility.