Reporting from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and neighbouring countries.
Four TTP militants, including suspected commander Tahir alias Muawiya, were killed in a CTD operation in Peshawar’s Budhni area. Police recovered SMGs, a pistol, grenade, ammunition and an Afghan identity document, while two officers were wounded in a separate attack on a police post.
At least six security personnel, including two military officers, were killed in separate militant attacks in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, while security forces claimed to have killed 21 militants linked to the TTP and BLA.
Security forces killed 14 militants affiliated with the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in two separate operations in Balochistan’s Chagai and Washuk districts, recovering weapons and ammunition from the militants, according to security sources.
One policeman was killed and seven others were injured in separate attacks across Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, while two bodies were recovered from Lakki Marwat and four members of a family were injured in a suspected drone-related mortar attack in South Waziristan.
Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly has passed the Anti-Terrorism (Punjab Amendment) Bill 2026, introducing enhanced security measures and advanced technology for terrorism trials, including video-link hearings, audio-video recording and voice modification to protect judges, lawyers, prosecutors, police officers and witnesses.
Three brothers were killed and another person injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, while militants torched a police station and customs office in Washuk, marking the third major violent incident in the province in two days.
Two militants were killed in an intelligence-based CTD operation in Pakistan’s Mardan district, with weapons, a grenade, magazines and ammunition recovered from their possession. Their identities are being verified, while a search operation continues for their fleeing accomplices.
Pakistan’s Balochistan authorities say security forces detained two girls, aged 16 and 12, who were allegedly being prepared by the banned BLA for suicide attacks.
Maulana Rashid Ahmed was killed by unknown armed militants in a targeted shooting while he was on his way to a mosque in Pakistan’s Swat district, police said.
A policeman was killed and five others, including a DSP, were injured in a militant attack on a police vehicle in Pakistan’s Dera Ismail Khan, authorities said.
Five alleged militant associates were arrested during a joint security operation in India-administered Kashmir’s Kulgam district, with four pistols, ammunition and two hand grenades recovered from their possession.
India has signed a deal with the United States to acquire Javelin anti-tank missile systems, strengthening defense cooperation between the two countries amid recent diplomatic and trade tensions.
