Pakistan has boosted safety and arrested dozens of suspects because it fears a rising wave of militant assaults following its air strikes in Afghanistan, Minister of State for Inside Talal Chaudhry mentioned on Wednesday.
“Our forces are on high-alert to fight any assaults,” Chaudhry mentioned Reuters.
“You already know the militants all the time react at any time when we go after their hideouts in Afghanistan.”
Pakistan carried out air strikes on targets in Afghanistan over the weekend on what it mentioned have been militant targets liable for a spate of latest suicide bombings on Pakistani soil.
Islamabad blames Kabul for permitting the fighters to make use of Afghanistan as a protected haven. Kabul denies the fees, saying the militancy is Pakistan’s inside downside.
Pakistani and Afghan forces exchanged fireplace alongside their border on Tuesday, with either side accusing the opposite of initiating the conflict.
There have additionally been quite a few militant assaults, together with the ambush of a police car in Kohat through which 5 officers and two civilians have been killed and a suicide bombing at a checkpoint that killed two policemen.
Chaudhry mentioned the retaliatory assaults by militants proved Islamabad’s case that they’d linkages in Afghanistan, including that the forces had averted a number of assaults in latest weeks and arrested quite a few suspects, together with Afghans.
Safety forces have accelerated search and intelligence based mostly operations and “have arrested dozens of suspected militants, their handlers and their facilitators,” the minister mentioned.
A number of sources added that Pakistan’s intelligence companies have issued alerts for a attainable surge in terror assaults in Pakistan within the coming days.
City facilities, markets, safety forces and locations of worship might be attainable targets, in accordance with the alerts, the sources mentioned.
“We now have been given a powerful warning about extra terror assaults in our official communications. On this regard, we’ve nearly doubled our search operations throughout Pakistan,” mentioned an intelligence official.
Militancy is a rising downside for Pakistan with the variety of assaults rising yearly since 2022, in accordance with Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), a world monitoring group.
Information from ACLED exhibits assaults in Pakistan rose practically fourfold to 2,425 in 2025 from 658 in 2022 and over the identical interval, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) assaults elevated greater than seven-fold to 838 from 118.
