Overview
- Security forces carried out intelligence-based raids that killed 24 militants in Bannu district, the military’s media wing said Friday, following a recent vehicle-borne suicide attack and other assaults on police.
- The Counter-Terrorism Department and Bannu police separately reported a targeted operation in the Gulbahar area that killed five suspected militants and recovered rifles, grenades and ammunition for forensic analysis.
- Security agencies tracked an explosives-laden vehicle in Wana and destroyed it before it could be used in a suicide attack, killing one militant and injuring five others in an operation officials said was executed after three days of surveillance.
- Authorities say weapons and ammunition seized across the raids are being processed for forensics and that follow-up investigations will target facilitators and support networks as operations continue.
- The military and senior leaders framed the actions as part of the nationwide Azm-e-Istehkam counterterror campaign and warned of continued intelligence-led operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and border districts, a posture likely to keep security checks and patrols high and affect daily life for residents in those areas.