Pakistan has carried out intelligence-based, selective and precision engagements against Fitna al Khawarij (FAK), its affiliates, and Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) elements operating from sanctuaries along the Afghan border.

These operations specifically targeted terrorist camps, training nodes, and hideouts, not civilian infrastructure. Official sources categorically reject allegations that civilians or religious sites were targeted, calling such claims false, malicious, and deliberately crafted to provide cover for terrorist sanctuaries. Security officials note that these groups routinely embed themselves within civilian populations and use non-combatants as human shields. Pakistan’s operational planning, therefore, incorporates measures to minimize or eliminate collateral damage. The strikes represent a limited and proportionate response to an ongoing wave of terrorism, including mass-casualty attacks on civilians and security forces inside Pakistan. Authorities emphasize that the action falls strictly within the framework of counterterrorism self-defense. Pakistan has also strongly dismissed propaganda suggesting attacks on mosques or madrassahs. Officials state that........

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