4 terrorists affiliated with Indian proxy, Fitna al-Khawarij, had been killed in a sequence of operations throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from November 17 to 18, the Inter-Companies Public Relations (ISPR) stated on Wednesday.
An intelligence-based operation (IBO) was performed by the safety forces in Bajaur district on the reported presence of terrorists.
Throughout the conduct of the operation, troops successfully engaged the terrorists’ location, and after an intense hearth change, one militant was killed.
Two extra terrorists had been neutralised in separate IBOs performed in Spinwam and Zakir Khel areas of KP’s North Waziristan district.
In one other encounter that occurred in Dera Ismail Khan district, safety personnel efficiently neutralised yet one more terrorist.
“Weapons and ammunition had been additionally recovered from Indian sponsored killed khwarij, who remained actively concerned in quite a few terrorist actions in these areas,” the army’s media wing stated.
“Sanitisation operations are being performed to eradicate another Indian sponsored kharji discovered within the space,” it added.
The military vowed to proceed a relentless counterterrorism marketing campaign, together with legislation enforcement businesses, beneath the imaginative and prescient of “Azm-e-Istehkam” at full tempo to wipe out the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the nation.
Contemporary IBOs had been adopted by the safety forces’ motion within the KP province, wherein they neutralised 23 Indian-sponsored terrorists in separate engagements from November 16 to 17.
Pakistan has confronted elevated cross-border terrorist incidents for the reason that Taliban regime returned to energy in Afghanistan in 2021.
KP and Balochistan, the 2 bordering provinces, have borne the brunt of those assaults.
KP alone recorded over 600 terror incidents, wherein not less than 79 police personnel had been martyred alongside 138 civilians, throughout the first eight months of 2025, in response to a police report.
Pakistan has constantly urged the Afghan Taliban to abide by the Doha settlement in 2020, wherein they dedicated to not permitting their soil for use towards any nation.
