Security forces foiled a suicide bombing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s South Waziristan district and killed four terrorists, including the suicide bomber, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the military\u2019s media wing, the terrorists attempted to ram an explosives-laden vehicle into a security forces checkpost in the district. However, \u201ctheir nefarious designs were checked and decisively foiled by the vigilant and resolute response of security forces\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe attackers explosive-laden vehicle was successfully engaged and destroyed outside the perimeters of post, killing one suicide bomber in it, which failed to cause any damage,\u201d said the ISPR, adding that the objective was to breach the checkpost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ISPR further said that the troops \u201cengaged the remaining intruders, forcing three khwarij<\/em> into a nearby compound, where they were later neutralised in a deliberate clearance operation carried out with precision, without any casualties on the security forces\u2019 side\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fitna al Khawarij<\/u><\/em><\/a> is a term the state uses for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement further said that a sanitisation operation was carried out in the general area to eliminate any other terrorist, vowing that under the \u201crelentless counter-terrorism campaign under vision \u2018Azm-i-Istehkam\u2019 (as approved by Federal Apex Committee on National Action Plan) by security forces and law enforcement agencies of Pakistan will continue at full pace to wipe out the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A day earlier, a terrorist attack on a joint police checkpost in KP\u2019s Tank district martyred<\/a> 15 people, including 14 security personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among those martyred were 12 soldiers, two policemen and a government official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ISPR said in a statement that the attack took place early on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n KP has seen a rise in terrorist attacks over the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the Annual Security Report 2025<\/u><\/a> from the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), KP recorded a significant surge in violence last year as \u201cfatalities rose from 1,620 in 2024 to 2,331 in 2025\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to a resurgence of militancy, especially in KP and Balochistan, where attacks often target security personnel<\/u><\/a> and LEAs<\/u><\/a>, the state has intensified counter-terrorism operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Security forces foiled a suicide bombing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s South Waziristan district and killed four terrorists, including the suicide bomber, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-233033.png",459,463,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-233033-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-233033-297x300.png",297,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-233033.png",459,463,false],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-233033.png",459,463,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-233033.png",459,463,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-25-233033.png",459,463,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\/7566","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=7566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7567,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions\/7567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}