One policeman was killed and seven others were injured in separate attacks across Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, while two bodies were recovered from Lakki Marwat and four members of a family were injured in a suspected drone-related mortar attack in South Waziristan.
Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly has passed the Anti-Terrorism (Punjab Amendment) Bill 2026, introducing enhanced security measures and advanced technology for terrorism trials, including video-link hearings, audio-video recording and voice modification to protect judges, lawyers, prosecutors, police officers and witnesses.
Three brothers were killed and another person injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, while militants torched a police station and customs office in Washuk, marking the third major violent incident in the province in two days.
Two militants were killed in an intelligence-based CTD operation in Pakistan’s Mardan district, with weapons, a grenade, magazines and ammunition recovered from their possession. Their identities are being verified, while a search operation continues for their fleeing accomplices.
Pakistan’s Balochistan authorities say security forces detained two girls, aged 16 and 12, who were allegedly being prepared by the banned BLA for suicide attacks.
Maulana Rashid Ahmed was killed by unknown armed militants in a targeted shooting while he was on his way to a mosque in Pakistan’s Swat district, police said.
A policeman was killed and five others, including a DSP, were injured in a militant attack on a police vehicle in Pakistan’s Dera Ismail Khan, authorities said.
Five alleged militant associates were arrested during a joint security operation in India-administered Kashmir’s Kulgam district, with four pistols, ammunition and two hand grenades recovered from their possession.
Pakistan’s CTD and a federal intelligence agency have arrested a highly wanted alleged target killer linked to the banned Sipah-e-Muhammad organization in Karachi, recovering a hand grenade and a Kalashnikov from his possession.
