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The operation was carried out within the Wanda Sheikh Allah space of Lakki Marwat district.
Eight terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan had been killed and 5 others had been injured within the operation, police mentioned.
In a separate incident, unknown assailants blew up a newly constructed authorities women’ main faculty in Tank district, bordering South Waziristan, on Friday.
The incident passed off at Gara Budha village in Sial Gul Korona, police mentioned.
No casualties had been reported because the constructing was unoccupied on the time of the blast.
Security officers suspect the involvement of militants aiming to disrupt the rise of schooling and literacy, notably women’ schooling, within the area.
No group has claimed duty for the varsity bombing as but. However, splinter teams of TTP lively within the Tank district are in opposition to women’ schooling and often goal their colleges.
Over 450 colleges within the province have been destroyed in such assaults over the past decade, forcing college students to both stop schooling or attend courses subsequent to ruined buildings or the rubble, as per knowledge collected by native NGOs.
Pakistan witnessed a number of assaults on women’ colleges till 2019, particularly within the Swat Valley and former tribal areas below the management of TTP.
In 2012, the insurgents attacked Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai, a teenage scholar and advocate for the schooling of women.
Pakistan has recently been witnessing an increase in terrorist actions, primarily in provinces bordering Afghanistan.
As many as 298 folks died as a consequence of terrorism to this point this 12 months in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in keeping with a Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) report printed on Thursday.
The report mentioned that until October 22, 117 police personnel and 181 civilians had been killed in numerous terrorist incidents throughout the province, bringing the entire variety of lives misplaced to 298, whereas 486 others sustained accidents.
As per the info, throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2,366 intelligence-based operations had been performed during which 1,124 militants had been arrested and 368 terrorists had been gunned down.
The report said that 6,181 suspects had been charged in numerous terrorism-related instances through the 12 months.
Action in opposition to extortion rackets additionally intensified, with 1,287 instances being registered until now this 12 months, and 209 suspects had been charged, whereas 52 others had been apprehended throughout operations.
Published – October 24, 2025 10:32 pm IST
