Seven terrorists were killed in the Eidak area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s North Waziristan district during an intelligence-based operation (IBO), state media reported on Friday, citing security sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSecurity forces pursued the terrorists of Fitna al Khawarij<\/em> with determination and combat skills and destroyed their hideouts,\u201d Radio Pakistan<\/em> said. Fitna al Khawarij<\/u><\/em><\/a> is a term the state uses for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n President Asif Ali Zardari lauded security forces for the successful operation, a statement issued by his office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUnder the Azm-i-Istehkam<\/em> initiative, the efforts of the security forces to completely eliminate terrorism and establish lasting peace are commendable,\u201d the president was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n KP has been witnessing terrorist attacks and security challenges for a long time. The province, excluding the merged districts, recorded 54 terrorist attacks in August<\/u><\/a> compared with 36 in July, representing an increase of 50 per cent, according to data compiled<\/u><\/a> by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n On September 30, security forces killed three terrorists in an IBO in KP\u2019s Mir Ali. A day before that, in an IBO<\/u><\/a> in KP\u2019s Bara area, security forces killed five terrorists. On Monday, four terrorists were killed<\/u><\/a> during an IBO in Dera Ismail Khan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week, a dozen people lost their lives while 35 others were injured in a suicide blast<\/u><\/a> that targeted the Aman Mela police checkpost in DI Khan\u2019s Darazinda tehsil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Sept 18, a major attack<\/u><\/a> in the old Police Lines in KP\u2019s Kohat claimed 23 lives and injured about 100 others. Eight terrorists were killed during an overnight clearance operation<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Sept 17, security forces killed<\/u><\/a> 10 terrorists in separate operations in KP between Sept 15 and 17. Earlier in the month, over 20 terrorists were killed<\/u><\/a> during multiple engagements in KP between Sept 3 and 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seven terrorists were killed in the Eidak area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s North Waziristan district during an intelligence-based operation (IBO), state media reported on Friday, citing..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-1.png",800,947,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-1-253x300.png",253,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-1-768x909.png",768,909,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-1.png",800,947,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-1.png",800,947,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-1.png",800,947,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Pakistan<\/a>","tag_info":"Pakistan","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16942,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16940\/revisions\/16942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}