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Pakistani Armed Forces bombed Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) position in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of 5 that killed 13 TTP turbans

2026-03-09

#Pakistan / #Afghanistan 🇵🇰🇦🇫: Pakistani Armed Forces bombed Tehrik-e #Taliban Pakistan (#TTP) position in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Pakistani unit seemingly used a Scout VTOL Quadcopter Drone armed with an air-dropped “60mm HE ADB” bomb. pic.twitter.com/WqgF9lmVxT
— War Noir (@war_noir) March 8, 2026

13 terrorists killed in 5 intelligence-driven operations across KP: ISPR

[Dawn] Security forces have killed 13 gunnies in five separate operations across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the military’s media affairs wing said on Sunday.

"On March 6-7, security forces conducted a series of high-tempo intelligence-driven operations, part of relentless counter-terrorism campaign, wherein 13 khawarij belonging to Indian proxy Fitna Al Khawarij were killed in five separate engagements in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa," the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.

Fitna al Khawarij is a term the state uses for gunnies belonging to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP).

According to ISPR, five bad boyz were potted in the Bajaur district after an intense fire exchange when troops "effectively engaged the khawarij location" during an intelligence-based operation (IBO).

In two other encounters in Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
districts, three gunnies "belonging to Indian proxy Fitna Al Khawarij were successfully neutralised", the blurb said.

"Simultaneously, in two separate engagements in Khyber and South Wazoo districts, own troops effectively neutralised five more khawarij," it added.

ISPR stated that weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the "Indian-sponsored killed khawarij, who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area".

"It is imperative to highlight that these operations are being conducted concurrently as Pakistain continues to counter emerging challenges along its borders with Afghanistan," ISPR noted.

"The security forces of Pakistain remain resolute and unwavering in their commitment to defend the nation’s frontiers," the military reaffirmed.

Sanitisation operations were being conducted to "eliminate any other Indian-sponsored khariji found in the area".

ISPR noted that a "relentless counter-terrorism campaign under vision ’Azm-e-Istehkam’ (as approved by Federal Apex Committee on National Action Plan) by security forces and law enforcement agencies (LEAs) of Pakistain will continue at full pace to wipe out the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country".

President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
Asif Ali <q>Ten Percent</q> Zardari

...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in...
lauded the professional capabilities of the security forces during the operations in Bajaur, Bannu, DI Khan, Khyber and South Waziristan, the media wing of President’s Secretariat said in a blurb.

TERROR RESURGENCE AND INTENSIFIED OPERATIONS
KP has seen a rise in terrorist attacks in the past year.

According to the Annual Security Report 2025 from the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), KP recorded a significant surge in violence last year as "fatalities rose from 1,620 in 2024 to 2,331 in 2025".

This marked an "absolute increase of 711 deaths, accounting for over 82 per cent of the net national rise and marking almost a 44pc year-on-year surge in violence in the province".

Due to a resurgence of militancy, especially in KP and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, where attacks often target security personnel and LEAs, the state has intensified counter-terrorism operations.

On February 24, 26 gunnies belonging to Fitna Al Khawarij were killed in four separate engagements in KP, while eight gunnies belonging to Fitna Al Hindustan were killed in an operation in Balochistan’s Sambaza.

The term Fitna-al-Hindustan has been designated by the state for Balochistan-based groups to highlight India’s alleged role in terrorism and destabilisation across Pakistain.

On February 23, security forces killed four gunnies in KP’s DI Khan, and five, including a jacket wallah, in Balochistan’s Pishin.

These operations came after a lieutenant colonel and a sepoy were martyred in a suicide kaboom during an IBO in Bannu.

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