{"id":25810,"date":"2025-11-02T00:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=25810"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:04:06","slug":"militants-suffer-decade-high-losses-in-oct-picss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=25810","title":{"rendered":"Militants suffer decade-high losses in Oct: PICSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Militants in Pakistan faced their most significant losses in a decade in October, as security forces ramped up counter-terror operations across several regions, according to figures compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS).<\/p>\n<p>The development follows a setback for militants in September, when 69 attacks were recorded \u2014\u00a0a 52 per cent drop compared to August \u2014\u00a0the Islamabad-based think tank said in its latest report.<\/p>\n<p>The PICSS reported that 355 militants were killed in October, while 72 security personnel and 31 civilians, including a peace committee member in Bannu, lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The institute&#8217;s Militancy Database further showed that 92 security personnel, 48 civilians, and 22 militants sustained injuries across the country.<\/p>\n<p>While the think tank reported a 29 per cent surge in militant attacks \u2014 rising from 69 in September to 89 in October \u2014\u00a0it also noted a 19 per cent decline in overall casualties.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, militants abducted 55 people during October \u2014\u00a0the highest monthly figure of kidnappings in the past decade \u2014\u00a0while security forces arrested 22 suspected militants.<\/p>\n<p>The data showed that militant-initiated violence claimed the lives of 55 security personnel, 29 civilians, a peace committee member, and 24 militants, while 88 security officials, 45 civilians, and one militant were injured.<\/p>\n<p>In Balochistan, the number of militant attacks increased slightly from 21 in September to 23 in October. However, fatalities dropped significantly.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants in Pakistan faced their most significant losses in a decade in October, as security forces ramped up counter-terror operations across several regions, according to figures compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS). The development follows a setback for militants in September, when 69 attacks were recorded \u2014\u00a0a 52 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}