Three Pakistani policemen, including the head clerk of Nizam Pur Police Station, have gone missing in a sensitive area of Nowshera district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with police sources saying they may have been abducted by terrorists. Authorities have launched a search operation across the area, while the alleged abduction has not yet been officially confirmed.
Indian security forces arrested five alleged terrorist associates in Kulgam district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, recovering pistols, ammunition and grenades, police said. In a separate operation in Handwara, authorities recovered an AK-47 rifle, grenades, hundreds of rounds and other weapons from an underground hideout.
A station house officer (SHO) and his gunman were killed when terrorists opened fire on a police patrol in New Karrapa near the Karak-Kohat boundary in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A passerby was wounded, while police launched a search operation to track down the attackers.
Pakistani security forces killed nine militants in intelligence-based operations in Palangzai, Nadeem Kot and Kot Khazri in North Waziristan, according to security sources. Weapons and ammunition were recovered, and several militant hideouts were destroyed. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised the operations and vowed that terrorists would not be allowed to achieve their objectives.
The International Criminal Court has unsealed details of arrest warrants against four senior Taliban leaders, including Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, over alleged crimes against humanity involving gender persecution. The ICC says the warrants concern systematic discrimination against women, girls and people perceived as violating Taliban gender norms, while the Taliban rejects the court’s jurisdiction and allegations.
Five personnel were killed and one was wounded in two separate terrorist attacks in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, within about an hour. The attacks targeted Highway Traffic Police and Federal Board of Revenue personnel, as authorities launched a search for the perpetrators amid continued TTP activity in the district.
Security forces killed three TTP militants during an intelligence-based operation in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, security sources said. The operation was conducted under the Azm-e-Istehkam counterterrorism framework, with security forces continuing efforts to disrupt militant networks across the province.
Munir Farooqi, a Pakistan-born British man who was sentenced to four life terms for terrorism-related offences in 2011, has died in prison aged 69. His funeral was held at Manchester Central Mosque on September 30, drawing more than 100 mourners and prompting political scrutiny over the mosque’s decision to host the service.
