Overview
- Security forces said they killed 10 militants in intelligence-based raids in Surab and Mastung and then carried out follow-up operations in Khad Kocha that state media reported killed six and later four more.
- Troops and police arrested several suspected facilitators and multiple female and male suicide bombers during the raids, and recovered weapons, ammunition and improvised explosive devices.
- Unidentified gunmen attacked a Karachi-bound passenger coach in the Mastung area, killing three people, and later gunmen assassinated a district and sessions judge and his security guard, prompting a curfew and heightened local searches.
- Federal and provincial leaders and the military praised the operations and vowed to continue the campaign under Operation Shaban and the Azm-e-Istehkam strategy to remove militant infrastructure.
- The operations build on months of rising militant activity in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and carry the risk of further security restrictions, court disruptions and local displacement as clearance efforts continue.