Safety forces have killed 23 terrorists in a number of intelligence-based operations carried out in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, mentioned the Inter-Providers Public Relations (ISPR) in an announcement launched on Thursday.
The army’s media wing mentioned the operations have been carried out over the past 48 hours within the areas of Datta Khel, Spinwam and Bannu.
“During the last 48 hours, throughout the conduct of those collection of operations, personal troops successfully engaged a number of Khwarij places. Following intense and fierce exchanges of fireplace, twenty three extra Khwarij belonging to Indian-sponsored Fitna-al-Khwarij,” mentioned the ISPR.
Fitna al-Khawarij is a time period the state makes use of for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), whereas Fitna al Hindustan is a time period designated by the state for terrorist organizations in Balochistan.
Amongst these killed was ring chief Jan Meer alias Toor Saqib, mentioned the ISPR, including that the ring chief’s demise will give “a major blow to the khwarij networks working in these areas”.
Meer was wished by safety forces, and the federal government had introduced a bounty on him as a consequence of his “lively involvement in quite a few terrorist actions, together with the killing of safety personnel and harmless civilians”.
The army mentioned that throughout the sanitization operations, a collection of advanced underground tunnels and bunkers utilized by terrorists have been additionally found and destroyed by safety forces.
Weapons, ammunition and a big cache of explosives, together with improvised explosive units (IEDs) have been additionally recovered from the killed terrorists.
“Sanitisation operations proceed to eradicate holed up khwarij from these areas, as relentless Counter Terrorism marketing campaign beneath imaginative and prescient ‘Azm e Istehkam’ (as authorised by Federal Apex Committee on Nationwide Motion Plan) by safety forces and legislation enforcement companies of Pakistan will proceed at full tempo to wipe out the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the nation,” mentioned the ISPR.
Regardless of report militant deathsPakistan noticed a pointy escalation in militant violence in 2025, with terrorist assaults rising by 34 p.c and terrorism-related fatalities rising by 21 p.c 12 months on 12 months, in line with a report launched by the Islamabad-based Pak Institute for Peace Research.
KP specifically has seen an increase in terrorist assaults up to now 12 months. In line with the Annual Security Report 2025 From the Heart for Analysis and Safety Research (CRSS), the province recorded a major surge in violence final 12 months as “fatalities rose from 1,620 in 2024 to 2,331 in 2025”.
Islamabad has repeatedly urged the Taliban administration to dismantle terrorist sanctuaries on Afghan soil, significantly these linked to the banned TTP. Nevertheless, officers say these appeals have gone unheeded.
As a consequence of a resurgence of militancy, particularly in KP and Balochistan, the place assaults typically goal safety personnel and LEAs, the state has intensified counter-terrorism operations.
Safety forces killed 22 India-sponsored terrorists in North Waziristan, the army’s media affairs wing mentioned on Tuesday.
Final month, safety forces killed 22 terrorists in a joint IBO in KP’s Khyber District, the army’s media wing mentioned.
