SWAT: A policeman has been martyred and four terrorists have been killed during an ongoing operation in Swat\u2019s Matta tehsil, police and security said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An initial statement issued by Swat police spokesperson Nasir Iqbal Karimi said Elite Force Constable Gulfam had embraced martyrdom while \u201cbravely fighting the terrorists\u201d on Tuesday night during the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later, security sources said four terrorists had also been killed in the operation, while the operation being carried out by the Pakistan Army, police and other security agencies was ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sources said four other terrorists had taken refuge inside a house and were using its residents as human shields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They added that the terrorists belonged to Fitna-al-Khawarij<\/em> \u2014 a term that the state uses for the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the sources, police had gained control of an important strategic location in Matta\u2019s Rashid Sar area during the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the past several months, there have been reports of the presence of terrorists in Swat\u2019s Kabal and Matta tehsils, as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continues to battle terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A monthly security assessment released<\/u><\/a> in early June by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies said<\/u><\/a> that after two consecutive months of improvement, Pakistan\u2019s security situation deteriorated sharply in May, driven primarily by escalating terrorist violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SWAT: A policeman has been martyred and four terrorists have been killed during an ongoing operation in Swat\u2019s Matta tehsil, police and security said on..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8382","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-2026-07-30-072402.png",488,498,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-30-072402-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-30-072402-294x300.png",294,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-30-072402.png",488,498,false],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-30-072402.png",488,498,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-30-072402.png",488,498,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-30-072402.png",488,498,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\/8382","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=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8383,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/8383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}