Pakistan’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested eight suspected terrorists during intelligence-based operations across Punjab, recovering 465 grams of explosives, two hand grenades, detonators and banned organization literature. Seven cases have been registered, while investigations continue.
Pakistani police and Orakzai Scouts killed 10 terrorists affiliated with the banned Lashkar-e-Islam Pakistan and Hafiz Gul Bahadur group during a joint operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Orakzai district. The operation followed a militant blockade on Sangra Main Road. Authorities said security operations would continue to eliminate terrorist threats and maintain law and order.
Pakistani security forces and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) have killed an alleged mastermind of the suicide attack on Kohat Police Lines during a joint operation in Lakki Marwat district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to the CTD, the terrorist had links to the Gul Bahadur group and was involved in facilitating the attack using an explosives-laden vehicle. He was also allegedly linked to a bank robbery involving Rs6 million and plans to target a Pakistan Air Force installation
A German court sentenced two men to eight-and-a-half and four-and-a-half years in prison for spying on Jewish and pro-Israel figures and preparing attacks allegedly directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force. The intended targets included German-Israeli Society President Volker Beck and Central Council of Jews in Germany President Josef Schuster.
Rakhshan Division Commissioner Asadullah Kakar and his driver were abducted by armed terrorists in Balochistan, Pakistan, while travelling from Quetta to Kharan. Local administrative sources told Terror Monitor that the banned Balochistan Liberation Army was responsible for a series of recent high-profile kidnappings, with substantial ransom payments allegedly securing the release of previously abducted officials.
Former Sararogha SHO Sub-Inspector Niaz Muhammad was killed when unidentified armed terrorists opened fire on his vehicle near Dabbar Bazaar in Tank district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A student was also injured in the attack, while police have launched an investigation. No group has claimed responsibility.
Iranian state media reported that Afsaneh Aqila, commander of the Shahideh Afzal women’s Basij unit affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed in an attack in Mehrestan, Sistan and Baluchestan province. The circumstances of the attack and the identities of those responsible remain unclear, and no group has publicly claimed responsibility.
A policeman was killed and two people injured in a terrorist attack in Bajaur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed responsibility.
Pakistani security forces killed five Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) militants and injured four others during an intelligence-based operation in the Palantak area of Washuk district, Balochistan. Security sources said weapons and ammunition were recovered from the militants’ hideouts.
