Overview
- ISPR reported two intelligence-based operations in Kulachi, Dera Ismail Khan, and Datta Khel, North Waziristan, that killed 10 and 5 militants respectively.
- The dead included Alam Mehsud, whom security sources describe as a ringleader linked to major attacks in 2008, 2010, and 2014.
- Authorities said explosives, suicide jackets, IEDs, and weapons were seized during the Kulachi raid, with four of the slain identified by security sources as Afghan nationals.
- A separate incident in Bannu saw a suicide attacker detonate near a police station, killing only himself, according to police.
- President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised the operations as ISPR framed the targeted group as an India-backed proxy and state media aired a militant’s confession.