PESHAWAR: Security forces have killed 34 “India-backed” terrorists during multiple operations across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over the last three days, the military’s media wing said in a statement on Thursday.
According to a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), “From Oct 13-15, 2025, 34 khawarij belonging to Indian-proxy Fitna al-Khawarij were killed in multiple engagements in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.”
Fitna al-Khawarij is a term the state uses for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The security forces, per the ISPR, conducted intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in the North Waziristan, South Waziristan, and Bannu districts.
The first operation, it said, was carried out in the Spinwam area of North Waziristan district.
Intelligence-based operations conducted in Bannu, North and South Waziristan
The ISPR said that during the operation, their troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location, and after an intense fire exchange, 18 terrorists were eliminated.
According to the statement, second IBO was conducted in the South Waziristan district, during which eight more terrorists were neutralised following an intense exchange of fire with the security forces.
In the third engagement, security forces effectively neutralised eight terrorists in Bannu, it added.
The ISPR added that sanitisation operations were being carried out in the said areas “to eliminate any other Indian-sponsored terrorists”.
“The relentless counterterrorism campaign, Azm-i-Istehkam, approved by the Federal Apex Committee on National Action Plan (NAP), will continue at full pace to wipe out the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country”, it added.
During last few days, at least 83 terrorists were killed in different IBOs carried out in the province’s southern and northern districts.
A day earlier, state media had reported that security forces claimed eliminating dozens of terrorists who were trying to breach Pakistan’s borders in Mohmand.
Published in Dawn, October 17th, 2025
