Overview
- Eight were killed in Bannu and five in Kurram during intelligence-based raids on the night of January 13–14, the military said.
- Security forces reported ongoing sanitisation in the affected areas to locate any remaining fighters.
- ISPR described those killed as “khawarij,” a term officials use for militants aligned with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
- Earlier this week, four militants were killed in a separate intelligence-based operation in Kalat, Balochistan, according to ISPR.
- Officials counted 75,175 intelligence-based raids and 5,397 terror incidents in 2025, concentrated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, while PIPS reported attacks up 34% and fatalities up 21% year on year.