Pakistan's military said on Friday that its security forces killed 74 militants in a series of intelligence-based operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, in one of the largest counterterrorism tolls it has announced this year.
Source: QNC News, Nov 14, 2026
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military's media wing, 35 militants were killed in Mir Ali and eight in Orakzai in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over the previous 48 hours, after what it called intense exchanges of fire at several militant locations.
Source: News Pulse Pakistan, Nov 13, 2026
In Balochistan, the ISPR said 31 more militants were killed during a comprehensive area-clearance and sanitisation operation in the Kurram area of Quetta district that has been under way since November 3. Weapons, explosives and ammunition were recovered during the operations, the military said.
Source: Daily 6AM Pakistan, Nov 13, 2026
What the military says the operations targeted
The ISPR described the dead as members of groups it calls Fitna al-Khawarij and Fitna al-Hindustan, terms it uses for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Baloch armed groups, and alleged that the militants were backed by India and by Afghanistan. Those sponsorship allegations are the military's claims and could not be independently verified; India and Afghanistan have repeatedly denied backing militant groups inside Pakistan.
Source: News Pulse Pakistan, Nov 13, 2026
President Asif Ali Zardari praised the operations in a statement, saying the continued successes of the security forces reflected national resolve and professional capability, according to reports of the ISPR announcement.
Source: QNC News, Nov 14, 2026
A border under strain
The announcement came a day after at least 11 policemen were killed and 12 wounded when suspected TTP fighters ambushed a police convoy in the Kohat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, underlining the threat armed groups continue to pose in the northwest.
Source: QNC News, Nov 14, 2026
Pakistan has repeatedly accused the Taliban government in Kabul of allowing the TTP to use Afghan territory as a base for attacks inside Pakistan, an allegation Kabul denies. The dispute has led to repeated armed clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border since late October and has cost civilian lives on both sides.
Source: QNC News, Nov 14, 2026
Balochistan, Pakistan's largest and poorest province, is separately the site of a long-running insurgency by the Balochistan Liberation Army and allied groups seeking independence, which has targeted security forces, infrastructure and Chinese-linked projects.
Source: QNC News, Nov 14, 2026
The ISPR said counterterrorism operations under the national Azm-e-Istehkam campaign would continue in both provinces. The casualty figures in this report are the military's own and have not been independently verified.
Source: Daily 6AM Pakistan, Nov 13, 2026