Six ‘Fitna al-Hindustan’ terrorists killed in Dalbandin operation

DALBANDIN: Security forces killed six terrorists belonging to the “Fitna al-Hindustan network during an operation in Dalbandin, Balochistan.

Security sources said the slain militants were hiding in a mountain cave and had been under continuous aerial surveillance.

Security forces targeted the hideout at an, successfully neutralising all six militants, the sources added.

The operation, security officials said, marked a major success achieved through close coordination between the armed forces and intelligence agencies.

They reaffirmed that counterterrorism efforts in Balochistan would continue until the menace of terrorism is completely eradicated.

Earlier, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said that terrorists affiliated with Fitna al-Hindustan were enemies of Pakistan’s unity and peace. He vowed that operations against these “brutal elements” would continue until their elimination.

Naqvi had asserted that Pakistan would not rest until Fitna al-Hindustan was completely wiped out from its soil, adding that India-backed militants would never succeed in their nefarious designs.

Earlier, on May 23, DG ISPR Lt-Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, while addressing a press conference following a terror attack in Khuzdar in which children were targeted at India’s behest, said that Fitna al-Hindustan was deliberately attacking innocent and unarmed Pakistanis.

He stated that Fitna al-Hindustan was responsible for the killing of children in Khuzdar, accusing India of sabotaging regional peace and pursuing a policy of state-sponsored terrorism for the past two decades.

Presenting data on anti-terror operations, the DG ISPR had said that from January 2024 onwards, Pakistan witnessed 4,664 incidents of terrorism — 1,612 of them in Balochistan. Security and law enforcement agencies conducted 93,515 counterterrorism operations nationwide, including 52,887 in Balochistan.

He further said that a total of 1,018 terrorists were killed across Pakistan in 2024, 223 of them in Balochistan. So far this year, 747 militants have been neutralised — including 203 in Balochistan alone.

“As India continues to push these terrorists into action, the state continues to crush them,” Lt-Gen Chaudhry said.