October 15, 2026
The drill opened at a training base in Korla, Xinjiang, and focuses on counter-terrorism at high altitude and drone operation. Earlier joint drills were counter-terrorism exercises rather than army-to-army.
October 14, 2026
The governor administering KP under federal rule has asked for higher pay for the provincial police, days after the apex committee agreed to upgrade the force and the Counter-Terrorism Department.
October 13, 2026
The province's first apex committee meeting since the federal takeover directed departments to act decisively against terrorism and agreed to upgrade police and the Counter-Terrorism Department.
September 18, 2026
Security forces killed seven men in two intelligence-based operations in Balochistan, according to state media, the third such announcement from the province this week.
September 14, 2026
Security forces killed three men including a commander named as Naqeeb in a quadcopter strike on a vehicle in Mastung, according to state media.
September 9, 2026
Police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are stringing reinforced mesh above checkpoints to catch munitions dropped by modified commercial drones — the same improvisation Ukrainian cities adopted. A constable was killed in Karak on Tuesday night.
September 7, 2026
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have established Pakistan's first police UAV division, deploying handheld anti-drone jammers and a Peshawar data centre, after militant quadcopter attacks changed the nature of the threat.
September 4, 2026
The federal government has appointed Major General Faisal Naseer, until now the ISI's DG (C), as National Coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Authority for three years on secondment, under Section 9(1) of the NACTA Act 2013, with immediate effect.
August 2, 2026
Major Hafiz Ihsan Elahi, 34, was martyred leading an intelligence-based operation in the Razmak area of North Waziristan in which five militants were killed, the military's media wing said. A separate operation in Nushki, Balochistan killed a suicide bomber and six others.
July 31, 2026
The director general of Inter-Services Public Relations told a press conference that security forces conducted 40,348 operations this year and killed 2,084 confirmed militants, ruled out any further negotiations, and disputed the impression that Balochistan's security is deteriorating. He also addressed the missing persons issue and rejected the idea that a "hard state" means military rule.
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