Overview

• The military said an intelligence-based operation on September 20 in Kulachi, Dera Ismail Khan, killed seven militants, including three Afghan nationals and two suicide bombers, with weapons recovered and sanitisation underway.
• Multiple outlets and eyewitnesses reported an overnight attack on Matre/Metra Dara in the Tirah Valley that left about 30 people dead, with women and children among the victims.
• Army officials denied carrying out an airstrike in Tirah and said a large cache of explosives stored by militants detonated inside a house, collapsing nearby homes and causing civilian casualties.
• Akakhel tribal elders convened a jirga and launched protests, including a sit-in at Khyber Chowk, with plans reported to place some bodies outside the Corps Commander’s House to press demands for accountability.
• Officials cast the developments as part of an intensified counter-terror campaign and reiterated expectations that Afghanistan’s interim government prevent cross-border attacks into Pakistan.