Overview
- ISPR said an intelligence-based operation in Dogar, Kurram, led to the deaths of seven militants and six soldiers, including 24-year-old Captain Noman Saleem.
- Security forces launched a sanitisation sweep in the area after the firefight and said operations would continue under the national counterterrorism drive.
- President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif publicly hailed the troops and paid tribute to the martyred personnel.
- In separate IBOs in Balochistan’s Chiltan Mountains and Buleda, the army reported killing 18 alleged militants and seizing weapons and explosives.
- Some outlets, citing unnamed sources, described the Kurram incident as a TTP attack in the Sultan Kalay area with higher injury counts, a claim not confirmed by official statements.