Field Marshal Munir and China’s Liu Haixing vow to strengthen ‘all-weather’ partnership at GHQ talks on regional security
The senior Communist Party official also met Deputy PM Ishaq Dar, who sent greetings to President Xi Jinping
Military
Pakistani forces hit Afghan posts near Angoor Adda after unprovoked firing, Taliban personnel flee, South Waziristan DC says
No casualties have been reported on the Pakistani side, the deputy commissioner says, after a week of clashes along the South Waziristan border.
Terrorist attacks in Pakistan fall 37% in October and deaths 57%, but kidnappings hit a 12-month high, PICSS says
Balochistan and mainland KP led the decline with attacks down 46% and 31%, while 70 of the month’s 88 kidnappings were in Balochistan.
Afghan Taliban cannot absorb the ‘punishment’ Pakistan can inflict, DG ISPR warns, calling India the ‘biggest terror sponsor’
Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry says Pakistan is ready for any drone threat from Afghanistan and that Afghanistan now produces “only two products: terrorism and drugs”.
Pakistan ‘cautiously optimistic’ on US-Iran mediation, DG ISPR says, as Makkah pact door left open to Tehran
Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said Field Marshal Asim Munir’s two Tehran visits signalled progress, warned of ‘powerful spoilers’, and said the Makkah Defence Alliance does not bar new members.
Pakistan Army destroys more Afghan Taliban posts near South Waziristan and Parachinar in retaliatory strikes
Security sources say the army destroyed several Afghan Taliban posts and installations across from South Waziristan and Parachinar after unprovoked firing on Angoor Adda, with Taliban personnel fleeing their positions.
Security forces shoot down five terrorist drones targeting Balochistan check-post
Indian-sponsored Fitna al-Hindustan terrorists tried to strike a check-post in Kharan district, but all five drones were destroyed before reaching their target, security sources said.
Pakistan killed 2,410 terrorists in nine months, interior ministry tells National Assembly
The ministry also said 255,139 identity cards obtained by Afghans through fraud had been cancelled this year, and that X removed just 7.4% of flagged content.
Pakistan says it destroyed seven Afghan Taliban posts, dismisses Kabul’s Angoor Adda claims as ‘fabricated’
The information ministry said Taliban forces fired first on civilians in South Waziristan, as KP Governor Faisal Karim Kundi warned Kabul to “have no illusions”.
Nine Indian-sponsored terrorists killed in Balochistan operations in Kachhi and Wadh, ISPR says
Troops raided a hideout in Kachhi, killing seven, and intercepted two more in Wadh, the military said, as sanitisation operations continue.
