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Pakistan's information forces killed 52 terrorists, mostly belonging to the Taliban, successful abstracted operations crossed 3 provinces successful the past 24 hours, the service and officials said connected Friday (January 30, 2026).
Six terrorists were killed successful Punjab state aboriginal connected Friday (January 30) portion connected Thursday (January 29), 41 were killed successful 2 abstracted quality based operations (IBOs) successful Balochistan and 5 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) men, including a commander, were killed successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab constabulary said the terrorists had planned attacks connected the constabulary and different instrumentality enforcement agencies successful the province's Mianwali district, immoderate 300 kms from Lahore.
“Acting connected credible quality astir the beingness of highly unsafe terrorists successful the Chhapri Dam area, Mianwali, CTD teams carried retired a targetted operation,” said a connection by the CTD.
“When instrumentality enforcement unit moved in, the terrorists opened fire. The CTD officials returned fire, resulting successful a weapon conflict successful which six terrorists were killed portion 8 others managed to escape,” it said.
In Balochistan, the archetypal IBO was conducted successful the outskirts of the Harnai territory connected the reported beingness of the terrorists.
The information forces engaged the hideout, and “after an aggravated occurrence exchange,” 30 terrorists were killed, the Army said, adding that a ample cache of ammunition and explosives were besides recovered from them and destroyed connected the spot.
Another IBO was conducted successful Panjgur territory successful which a violent hideout was busted and 11 terrorists were neutralised, it said.
Besides weapons and ammunition, looted wealth from slope robbery successful Panjgur connected December 15, 2025 were besides recovered from the killed terrorists.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the information forces and the constabulary killed 5 TTP terrorists, including a TTP commander, successful Domel tehsil of the Bannu territory successful a associated cognition that lasted astir 10 hours connected Thursday (January 29).
Three civilians were besides killed and respective others were injured during the operation, constabulary said.
The information forces targeted the terrorists’ hideouts with much than 25 quadcopter strikes, portion a dense speech of occurrence continued passim the clashes.
Following the operation, continuous surveillance by drones and helicopters was carried retired successful the portion to circular up the remaining terrorists trying to fly the area.
In Punjab, the CTD said it recovered a ample cache of weapons and explosives from the militants, including 1 termination jacket, six submachine guns (SMGs), 3 manus grenades, and astir 200 rounds of ammunition during the operation.
Mianwali is ever susceptible to specified attacks arsenic the country is easy infiltrated done the adjoining tribal belt, sources said, adding, the terrorists mostly belonged to the banned TTP.
