EXTRACT

The fortnight of 16–31 May 2026 was dominated by an intense terrorist campaign in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, with the suicide bombing of a passenger train near Chaman Phatak in Quetta on 24 May, claiming twenty-four lives and injuring nearly seventy, the single most catastrophic incident. Security forces sustained heavy casualties but also achieved significant kinetic results, killing scores of TTP and BLA militants across operations in North Waziristan, Bannu, Kurram, Ziarat, and elsewhere, and eliminating commanders linked to the earlier Quetta and Bannu attacks. At the institutional level, the government announced the raising of a WAPDA Security Force and the training of two hundred Federal Constabulary personnel.