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Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's second-in-command Amjad was among 4 militants killed by information forces portion attempting to infiltrate done the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderline successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the service said connected Thursday (September 30, 2025). The militants were trying to infiltrate connected Wednesday (October 29) nighttime erstwhile their question was intercepted by the information forces successful Bajaur district, said a connection issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media helping of the army.
It said that the troops efficaciously engaged and thwarted the militants' effort to infiltrate. Four militants, including high-value people Amjad alias Mazahim, were "sent to hell," it said.
Amjad, the second-in-command to TTP main Noor Wali and caput of Rehbari Shura of the banned militant group, was highly wanted by the instrumentality enforcement agencies, the connection said.
The TTP commander, who was carrying 5 cardinal bounty connected his head, was "actively progressive successful perpetuating galore violent activities wrong Pakistan portion residing successful Afghanistan," it added.
The service reiterated that the interim Afghan authorities indispensable instrumentality factual measures to guarantee that Afghan ungraded is not utilized by militants to perpetrate coercion against Pakistan.
“It besides validates our stance that Afghan ungraded is continuously being utilized arsenic a harmless haven" by terrorists against Pakistan, it said.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised information forces for eliminating TTP commandant Amjad and his aides.
In a statement, the President said the cognition against coercion is simply a warrant of Pakistan's lasting bid and stability.
Prime Minister Shehbaz said the information forces, done their nonrecreational expertise, eliminated the highly wanted TTP commandant Amjad and thwarted the nefarious designs of the enemies of Pakistan's sovereignty. He said we volition proceed to decision the elements that harm guiltless people.
The TTP, besides known arsenic the Pakistan Taliban, was acceptable up arsenic an umbrella radical of respective militant outfits successful 2007. Its main purpose is to enforce its strict marque of Islam crossed Pakistan.
The group, believed to beryllium adjacent to al-Qaeda, has been blamed for respective deadly attacks crossed Pakistan, including an onslaught connected service office successful 2009, assaults connected subject bases, and the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel successful Islamabad. On Wednesday, astatine slightest six Pakistani soldiers, including a captain, were killed during an intelligence-based cognition successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district. Seven terrorists were besides gunned down during the operation.
Pakistan has seen a surge successful violent attacks, peculiarly successful areas bordering Afghanistan, mostly targeting police, instrumentality enforcement personnel, and information forces.
