{"id":8202,"date":"2026-07-29T09:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=8202"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:50:55","slug":"four-militants-killed-in-joint-police-and-ctd-operation-in-swats-matta-area-elite-force-constable-martyred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=8202","title":{"rendered":"Four Militants Killed in Joint Police and CTD Operation in Swat&#8217;s Matta Area; Elite Force Constable Martyred"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Swat:<\/strong> A joint operation by the <strong>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police<\/strong> and the <strong>Counter Terrorism Department (CTD)<\/strong> in the <strong>Matta<\/strong> area of Swat resulted in the deaths of <strong>four suspected militants<\/strong>, while an <strong>Elite Force constable was killed<\/strong> during the operation, according to security sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources said the operation was carried out in the <strong>Rashid Sar<\/strong> area, where security forces successfully secured control of a strategic location after engaging the suspected militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the sources, the four suspected militants allegedly took shelter inside a house and used members of the family as <strong>human shields<\/strong> during the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Security officials said <strong>Elite Force Constable Gulfam<\/strong> was killed in the exchange of fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CTD operation was reported to be continuing at the time of the statement, with security forces conducting further clearance activities in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials said law enforcement agencies would continue operations against militant groups until the area is fully secured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official statement used the term <strong>&#8220;Khawarij&#8221;<\/strong> to refer to the militants. This terminology reflects the wording used by Pakistani authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No independent verification of the reported death toll or other operational details was immediately available. Further information is expected as the operation progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swat: A joint operation by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in the Matta area of Swat resulted in the deaths..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8202","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\/438962_8844594_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438962_8844594_updates-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438962_8844594_updates-1-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438962_8844594_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438962_8844594_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438962_8844594_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/438962_8844594_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Pakistan<\/a>","tag_info":"Pakistan","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202","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=8202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}