Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Department has killed five ISKP terrorists, including a key commander, during an operation in Peshawar. Authorities said the terrorists were planning attacks on sensitive institutions, imambargahs and churches.
At least nine terrorists were killed in separate security operations and attacks across Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, while a kidnapped police officer and another abducted man were rescued. The incidents also left a police constable and a tribal elder killed and three police personnel injured.
A United Nations report says links between Afghanistan-based militant networks and terrorist attacks in Pakistan are growing, with Al-Qaeda providing the outlawed TTP and other militant groups with training, strategic guidance, propaganda and logistical support.
Eleven terrorists belonging to the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army were killed in security operations in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, while 2.9 tonnes of explosives intended for making improvised explosive devices were recovered, according to Pakistani officials.
Two IRGC personnel were killed after their vehicle was attacked following a clash with Baloch armed groups in Koorin, Zahedan, in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province, Iranian local media reported.
BAP district president Abdul Rahman Langove was shot dead by unidentified armed men outside his home in Nushki, while six bullet-riddled bodies were recovered from two locations along the Quetta-Karachi National Highway in Mastung, Balochistan.
Pakistan’s military says 21 militants were killed in security operations and clashes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including 17 in North Waziristan. The military also said the total number of militants killed while attempting to infiltrate Pakistan has reached 25.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi has criticized Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz over her remarks that Punjab faces a greater security threat from neighboring provinces than from neighboring countries. Afridi accused her of undermining Pakistan’s position on terrorism and said the statement had given India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “clean chit” over terrorism in Pakistan.
