Overview
- Punjab’s CTD carried out an intelligence‑based operation near Attock that resulted in an exchange of fire and the killing of five suspected militants, officials said.
- Authorities reported they recovered a suicide jacket, three submachine guns, two hand grenades and ammunition from the slain suspects and have begun identifying the bodies.
- Sindh CTD, working with intelligence agencies, arrested five men in two Karachi raids and seized five pistols, ammunition and mobile phones, the department said.
- The CTD alleges three of those arrested have ties to the banned Baloch Liberation Army and two to Fitna al‑Khawarij, and it said some suspects received militant training in Afghanistan in 2024.
- The prime minister praised the CTD action, investigators have launched wider searches for facilitators and escapees, and officials say further probes will examine links to past attacks and cross‑border networks.