Overview
- Security forces reported killing 22 militants in an intelligence-based raid in Dera Ismail Khan, identifying them as "Fitna al-Khawarij" tied by authorities to the TTP, with a sanitisation sweep continuing.
- DG ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry alleged the Taliban regime facilitates militant crossings from Afghanistan and said some Afghan posts have fired on Pakistani positions to cover infiltrations.
- The military tallied 67,023 intelligence-based operations nationwide in 2025 and 1,873 militants killed, including 136 Afghan nationals, with 4,910 operations since Nov. 4 resulting in 206 deaths.
- Officials linked militant financing to illicit trade and said a crackdown cut illegal diesel flows from an estimated 20.5 million liters a day to 2.7 million.
- Independent CRSS data recorded a 46% rise in violence in Q3 2025 with 901 fatalities, concentrated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.