{"id":30352,"date":"2025-12-06T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30352"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:04:04","slug":"nine-militants-killed-in-tank-and-lakki-marwat-operations-says-ispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30352","title":{"rendered":"Nine militants killed in Tank and Lakki Marwat operations, says ISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said nine individuals it described as \u201cIndian-sponsored khwarij\u201d were killed in two intelligence-based operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on December 5.<\/p>\n<p>The ISPR said the first operation took place in Tank district after intelligence reports indicated the presence of individuals it linked to what it called the \u201cIndian Proxy Fitna Al Khwarij.\u201d Troops carried out an intelligence-based operation and \u201ceffectively engaged\u201d the location, leading to an exchange of fire. After what the statement described as an \u201cintense exchange of fire,\u201d seven were killed.<\/p>\n<p>A second operation took place the same day in Lakki Marwat district after intelligence pointed to more suspected militants in the area. Security forces came under fire and returned fire, the ISPR said, adding that two individuals were killed during the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Read: ISPR presser: Vawda says state has drawn line<\/p>\n<p>Weapons and ammunition were recovered from those killed in both operations. The ISPR stated that the individuals had been involved in \u201cnumerous terrorist activities\u201d targeting security forces, law-enforcement agencies, as well as in \u201ctarget killings of innocent civilians.\u201d No details were shared about the specific incidents or the recovered material.<\/p>\n<p>The ISPR said sanitisation operations were underway in the surrounding areas to ensure no other \u201cIndian-sponsored khwarij\u201d remained. It said the follow-up actions were part of a broader counter-terrorism campaign under the government\u2019s \u201cAzm-e-Istehkam\u201d framework, approved by the Federal Apex Committee on the National Action Plan.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign would continue \u201cat full pace\u201d with the aim of eliminating \u201cthe menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country\u201d, said the ISPR. The statement did not report any casualties among security personnel or mention whether any arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p>The ISPR did not release further operational details or identify those killed, and no independent confirmation of the events was immediately available.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said nine individuals it described as \u201cIndian-sponsored khwarij\u201d were killed in two intelligence-based operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on December 5. The ISPR said the first operation took place in Tank district after intelligence reports indicated the presence of individuals it linked to what it called the \u201cIndian Proxy Fitna Al [&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-30352","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\/30352","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=30352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}