Overview
- Security forces carried out intelligence-based operations in Kachhi and Wadh districts on Monday that the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said killed nine militants identified as belonging to Fitna al‑Hindustan.
- The ISPR said weapons and ammunition were recovered from the slain fighters and that clearance and sanitisation operations are continuing in both areas to find any remaining militants.
- President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the interior minister publicly praised the operations and urged that the Azm‑e‑Istehkam campaign will continue at full pace to eliminate foreign‑backed terrorism.
- The raids come against a recent rise in militant attacks nationwide, with officials saying September saw Pakistan’s highest monthly number of militant incidents in 12 years and security forces reporting thousands of IBOs this year.
- Reporting is driven by military and government statements with no independent verification in the cited coverage, and state media also reported a separate IBO in Kech that killed one alleged Fitna al‑Hindustan militant as clearance operations proceeded.