Overview
- ISPR reported two intelligence-based operations on December 5 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one in Tank and another in Lakki Marwat.
- Seven suspected militants were killed in Tank and two in Lakki Marwat after what the military described as intense exchanges of fire.
- The military said weapons and ammunition were recovered from those killed and linked them to the group it calls Fitna al-Khawarij.
- Follow-on sanitisation operations are underway, with authorities describing the actions as a continuation of the wider campaign.
- Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi publicly praised the forces, and the accounts are based on official statements without independent verification reported.