Pakistan’s military spokesperson, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, has said security forces conduct approximately 200 intelligence-based operations every day as part of a comprehensive counterterrorism strategy aimed at eliminating militant groups and their facilitators.
In an interview with Reuters on October 30, 2026, the director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Pakistan had a clearly defined strategy to combat terrorism, including targeting militant networks and those providing them with support inside the country.
Chaudhry accused the former provincial administration in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of incompetence and indifference towards terrorism, alleging that elements within the government had obstructed counterterrorism efforts.
He claimed that one such facilitator, who had been hindering operations against militant groups, was no longer in a position of authority in the province.
The military spokesperson argued that Pakistan must also address internal factors contributing to militancy rather than attributing the entire problem to external forces.
He alleged that opposition to counterterrorism operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa came from individuals with links to militant organisations, maintaining that the province’s population was not opposed to action against terrorism.
Chaudhry clarified that security forces were not conducting a large-scale military offensive in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but were instead carrying out targeted intelligence-based operations.
He said approximately 200 such operations were conducted daily through coordination between the military, police and other law enforcement agencies.
Discussing Afghanistan’s role in regional militancy, the ISPR chief said Pakistan did not regard every domestic security problem as externally generated.
He contrasted this approach with what he described as India’s tendency to attribute internal problems to foreign involvement.
Chaudhry nevertheless identified Afghanistan as the principal base for militant organisations carrying out attacks inside Pakistan, alleging that their leadership, training camps and operational launch sites were located across the border.
He maintained that Pakistan’s counterterrorism strategy required confronting both domestic support networks and cross-border militant infrastructure.
The allegations concerning political figures and Afghanistan were presented as the military spokesperson’s claims and were not independently established in the interview account.