Inter-Companies Public Relations (ISPR) Director Common (DG) Lieutenant Common Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry is at present addressing a press convention.
On the outset of the press convention, the army’s spokesperson stated that the aim of the briefing was to provide a complete overview of counter-terrorism measures taken previously yr.
This “is the one function of this press convention, and I might request that we stay targeted on counterterrorism as terrorism is the most important menace that’s being confronted by the state of Pakistan proper now,” he added.
The DG ISPR stated 2025 was a “landmark and consequential yr in our combat towards terrorism”, including there have been 4 causes behind this conclusion.
Saying that the combat towards terrorism was your complete nation’s and was being fought for greater than 20 years, the DG ISPR additional acknowledged that the previous yr witnessed “unprecedented depth in counter-terrorism efforts”.
In 2025, he continued, the state of Pakistan, in addition to the folks, gained “full readability on terrorism”.
“The state already had this readability, which permeated slowly and steadily down[ward] that these terrorists are khawarij [and] they don’t have any relationship with Islam. They’re Fitna-al-Hindustan and don’t have any relation with Pakistan or [the people of] Balochistan,” he elaborated.
Fitna-al-Khawarij is a time period that the state has designated for the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and it makes use of Fitna-al-Hindustan for Balochistan-based terrorist teams to spotlight India’s alleged function in terrorism and destabilization throughout Pakistan.
Lieutenant Common Chaudhry additional highlighted that in 2025, the world accepted and acknowledged Pakistan’s stance and narrative concerning terrorism, notably about Afghanistan having turn out to be a “base of terrorism” operations.
Furthermore, he stated the final yr additionally noticed “how the Nationwide Motion Plan (NAP) was reinvigorated and the way it was being applied”.
On this connection, he additionally talked about that the imaginative and prescient for Azm-i-Istehkam — a counter-terrorism operation that was launched by the army in 2024 — had additionally been drawn from the revised NAP, and that every one political events and segments of society had reached a consensus that the implementation of the NAP was essential to remove terrorism.
However “there are nonetheless deficiencies, and there’s a lot of room for enchancment” within the implementation of NAP, he acknowledged.
After outlining these 4 elements as the explanations behind the declaration of 2025 as a “landmark and consequential yr” when it comes to counter-terrorism, the DG ISPR went on to discuss them intimately.
He started with sharing information, in keeping with which, legislation enforcement businesses of Pakistan — together with the military, police, Federal Constabulary and intelligence businesses — performed a complete of 75,175 intelligence-based operations (IBO) in 2025.
“Which comes all the way down to 206 IBOs per day,” he stated. Giving a breakdown, he stated that of those operations, 14,658 have been performed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 58,778 in Balochistan and 1,739 in the remainder of Pakistan.
He added that 5,397 terror incidents came about in Pakistan over the last yr, of which 3,811 have been reported from KP (71pc), 1,557 from Balochistan (29pc) and 29 from different areas.
Furthermore, 2,597 terrorists have been killed in Pakistan in 2025, the DG ISPR stated. Amongst them, 1,800 have been killed in KP, 784 in Balochistan and 10 in different areas.
Final yr, he continued, 1,235 legislation enforcement personnel and civilians have been martyred within the combat towards terrorism throughout 2025.
Sharing information about incidents of suicide bombing, he stated a complete of 27 had taken place in 2025. Of them, 16 came about in KP, 10 in Balochistan and one in Islamabad, on the judicial complicated.
“Out of them, two [involved] feminine suicide bombers.”
In gentle of those details and figures, he stated, the query that got here to thoughts was why the vast majority of terror incidents came about in KP.
“The first purpose for that is the politically conducive atmosphere that’s being offered [to terrorists] there, and the political-terror nexus that’s flourishing there,” he stated.
The DG ISPR highlighted that information present that terrorism started rising from 2021. And a complete of 193 terrorists have been killed compared to 592 legislation enforcement personnel being martyred that yr, he stated, including that it was a ratio of 1:3.
Transferring to 2025, he identified that 2,597 terrorists have been killed throughout final yr and 1,235 legislation enforcement personnel have been martyred. This would scale back to a ratio of two:1, he added.
“However, extra importantly, what occurred in 2021 that terrorism rose?” he questioned, and went on to elaborate on the explanation behind this improvement.
The DG ISPR defined that there was a change in Afghanistan in 2021 following the Doha Settlement.
“An armed group, the Afghan Taliban, sat down with the US and worldwide companions and entered an settlement. Beneath the settlement, they made three commitments — that they may kind an inclusive authorities in Afghanistan, use of Afghan soil for terrorism won’t be allowed and ladies will likely be given rights.” [in Afghanistan],” the DG ISPR recalled.
However the commitments have been fulfilled, the army spokesperson questioned.
“They weren’t. Is there a authorities there? There isn’t a authorities there. They.” [just] name themselves interim Afghan authorities […] Is there an inclusive authorities there? No, there’s not.
“Has terrorism been eradicated [from Afghanistan]? Conversely, Afghanistan turns into a hub of terrorists and non-state actors. Terrorists of various creeds function from there. So that’s what began occurring in 2001.”
Naming varied terror outfits that the DG ISPR stated have been working from Afghanistan, he stated it had turn out to be a “centre level the place terrorists of all types are being nurtured”.
He stated not too long ago, round 2,500 terrorists, who have been neither Afghans nor Pakistanis, had reached Afghanistan from Syria.
The army spokesperson additionally stated that the Afghan Taliban, “which is now the mom group” had began organizing the TTP as per its organizational construction. Additionally they skilled and gave path to the fear outfit, the DG ISPR.
Furthermore, Afghan Taliban constructed a “pretend” narrative, boasting that they pressured the US and worldwide coalition forces to flee Afghanistan.
He additionally stated that Afghans have been concerned in main terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2025.
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