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The Pakistan Army connected Friday issued a stern informing to terrorists and their facilitators, rejecting the thought of engaging successful talks with them to resoluteness the contented of militancy successful the country.
Addressing the media successful Peshawar, Army spokesperson Lt Gen Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry said, unfortunately, a deliberate program was carried retired successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to supply abstraction to terrorists which has harmed the nationalist and instrumentality enforcement agencies.
He talked astatine magnitude astir coercion successful Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, presenting information to amusement that militancy has accrued since 2021 aft the Taliban takeover of Kabul.
He said that nonaccomplishment to travel done connected the National Action Plan (NAP) to destruct coercion was the main crushed for the existent question of militancy successful the country. The NAP, a papers prepared successful 2014 pursuing the violent onslaught astatine an service schoolhouse successful Peshawar, had 20 points to destruct militancy. It was updated successful 2021 with 14 points to tackle militancy.
“The fig 1 constituent talks astir utilizing unit to destruct militants, but it is conscionable 1 constituent astir utilizing kinetic unit to tackle terrorism,” helium said, adding that each different points are related to different aspects of dealing with militancy.
He said it was the work of the provincial authorities and section medication to instrumentality the different points, similar improving instrumentality and order, processing a narrative, prosecuting militants and expelling amerciable aliens.
“Governance and nationalist payment were deliberately weakened, and attempts were made to physique a misleading narrative. The radical of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are paying the terms with their humor and sacrifices adjacent today,” helium said, criticising jailed erstwhile premier Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, which rules the province.
Giving facts and figures, helium said 14,535 operations had been conducted successful 2024, which killed 769 militants and 577 information unit and civilians, including 272 service soldiers, 140 constabulary unit and 165 civilians.
He said that until September 15, 2025, different 10,115 operations had been done, sidesplitting 917 terrorists and 516 soldiers and civilians, including 303 service personnel, 73 constabulary unit and 132 civilians.
The service spokesperson said that the fig of operations and rebels killed presently showed that the information forces were actively pursuing terrorists, but a deficiency of governance has created abstraction for militancy.
He besides targeted Afghanistan for nonaccomplishment to destruct a harmless haven, adding that Pakistan has been engaging astatine aggregate levels to person them to instrumentality enactment against radical progressive successful cross-border terrorism.
He said that the Afghan nationals were progressive successful coercion successful Pakistan, and 161 Afghans were killed successful Pakistan successful 2024, and different 135 were killed portion entering from the border. He said that 30 termination bombers were Afghans progressive successful coercion past year.
Mr. Chaudhry besides blamed India for allegedly patronising militancy successful Afghanistan. Criticising the K.P. government, helium said the provincial authorities failed to make its counter-terrorism department, which has lone 3,200 unit and could registry lone 55 per cent of spiritual seminaries successful KP.
“The attraction of coercion successful KP is owed to the nexus betwixt transgression and militancy,” helium said. He besides criticised the "political thought" advocating for negotiations with terrorists alternatively of operations.
"It is perfectly wide who is gathering the communicative for dialogues with those who killed our children and played shot with their heads," helium remarked.
Imran Khan has repeatedly said that talks with the militants were the lone mode to bring peace. He said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities should alternatively enactment connected protecting the radical of the state alternatively of “begging Afghanistan” for security.
