Over 40,000 intelligence-based operations conducted in the country: DG ISPR

ISLAMABAD: Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary has said that 40,348 intelligence-led operations have been conducted in Pakistan this year, resulting in the killing of 2,084 terrorists.

"This comes to an average of 10 terrorists being killed every day, which is the highest ratio ever,” he said.

Addressing a news conference at GHQ, Rawalpindi on Friday, the ISPR chief said that the figure covers operations carried out by all security forces, including police, civil armed forces, intelligence agencies, and the armed forces.

"Of these, most were carried out in Balochistan, where 31,000 operations were conducted against the Indian-sponsored terrorists," he added, further saying that overall 3,145 terrorism incidents took place in the country during the first six months of 2026.

"Of these incidents, 1,971 were reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1,148 in Balochistan and 26 from other parts of the country," explained the DG ISPR.

He further said that the security forces in Pakistan are undertaking 194 intelligence-based operations every day, meaning that these operations continue every hour of the day.

"Mostly Afghan citizens were found to be involved in these incidents and bombings," he said.

“There is a deliberate attempt to create the impression in Balochistan that the situation there is very bad, and the province is getting out of hand,” he said.

Ruling out any possibility of talks with the terrorists, DG ISPR said, “There will be no talks with terrorists; either they lay down their arms, or we will fight them.”

Chaudhary further stated that “819 Pakistanis have been martyred” in incidents of terrorism in the ongoing year, which came to four per day. This comprised 303 army personnel, 194 law enforcers from police and civil armed forces and 322 civilians.

He added that 28 incidents of suicide bombing took place this year.

He went on to say that last year a total of 2,597 terrorists were killed, while the number remained 2,084 this year so far.