QUETTA, Pakistan: Pakistan security forces killed three more terrorists during the ongoing Operation Shaban in Balochistan, while the total number of terrorists killed in intelligence-based counterterrorism operations across the province since July 5 has reached 105, security sources said on Sunday.
The total number of terrorists killed in the Operation Shaban has reached 67, security sources said.
The operation is being jointly carried out by the Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps and Balochistan Police following the terrorist attack in the Mangi Dam area, in which several cops were martyred on July 7.
Air and ground operations against Fitna-al-Khawarij — a term the state uses for the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist group — were ongoing, security sources said.
According to security sources, the total number of terrorists killed during Operation Shaban and other intelligence-based operations carried out since July 5 in Balochistan had reached 105.
پاک فوج ، ایف سی بلوچستان اور پولیس کا مشترکہ “آپریشن شعبان” جاری مزید 3 دہشتگرد جہنم واصل ۔
سیکیورٹی فورسز کی فتنہ الخوارج کے کیخلاف علاقے میں ہوائی اور زمینی کارروائیاں مسلسل جاری ہیں
تازہ کارروائیوں کے دوران مزید 3 خارجیوں کو جہنم واصل کیا گیا،
آپریشن شعبان میں جہنم… pic.twitter.com/z5gzgojFd7
— PTV News (@PTVNewsOfficial) July 12, 2026
Security sources also said a large cache of weapons and ammunition was recovered from those killed, including M4 rifles, submachine guns (SMGs), a rocket launcher, mobile phones, and other equipment.
The operation is continuing and will remain underway until “the last terrorist” has been eliminated, the security sources said.
Security sources said on Friday that security forces, including the Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps and police, had been conducting a joint operation in Quetta district’s Shaban area since July 5 against terrorists involved in the killing of 27 police personnel during an attack on a police post at Mangi dam pumping station.
The terrorists had martyred nine police personnel during the attack and taken away 18 other policemen at gunpoint. Later, they killed the abducted police personnel, whose bodies were found in the Zarghoon Gar mountainous area.
Following Sunday’s update of the killing of three more terrorists in Operation Shaban, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi lauded the security forces, the FC and police.
“The action by the Pakistan Army, FC and police is reflective of the protection of national security. […] There is no place for terrorist elements in Pakistan,” Naqvi was quoted as saying by his ministry.
He added that the nation was standing with the security forces and action against terrorists would continue.
''بلوچستان میں جاری آپریشن شعبان میں مزید خوارجی جہنم رسید''، وفاقی وزیر داخلہ محسن نقوی نے آپریشن شعبان میں سیکیورٹی فورسز کی کامیابیوں کو سراہا
پاک فوج ، ایف سی بلوچستان اور پولیس کے بہادر سپوتوں کو سلام۔— Ministry of Interior GoP (@MOIofficialGoP) July 12, 2026
On Thursday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the country’s civil and military leadership had taken a “mutual and singular decision” to end terrorism after multiple major terrorist incidents in Balochistan.
PM Sharif made the remarks at a meeting of the Provincial Apex Committee on the National Action Plan in Quetta, with Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir also present.
Chairing the meeting, PM Sharif said, “One thing is decided: it is a mutual and singular decision of the civil and military leadership that we must end terrorism collectively.”
The meeting was held a day after Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry shared during a press conference that at least 42 people — four civilians, 27 policemen and 11 security personnel — have lost their lives in terrorist attacks and subsequent operations in Balochistan since July 5.
