Rawalpindi, November 9,2026: Security forces have recovered a huge cache of explosives, weapons and ammunition after conducting an intelligence-based operation in Muzak village, on the southern outskirts of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Monday.
According to the military’s media wing, the operation was conducted on November 8 against reported hideouts of terrorists belonging to Indian proxy Fitna Al Khwarij.
During the operation, two terrorist hideouts established inside mosques were sanitised, leading to the recovery of a large quantity of prepared improvised explosive devices (IEDs), explosive-making materials, weapons and ammunition.
The ISPR said the terrorists had deliberately used the mosques to store explosives and had also established torture cells at these locations.
It termed the use of places of worship for terrorist activities a reprehensible act of desecration, reflecting the group’s disregard for the fundamental teachings of Islam.
The statement said the terrorists, whom it described as Indian proxies and Kharijites, had nothing to do with Islam, adding that their distorted interpretation and misuse of religion were unacceptable and rejected by the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan.
The ISPR said sanitisation operations were underway, with security forces searching the area to eliminate any other terrorist hideouts.
It reaffirmed that the relentless counterterrorism campaign under the vision of “Azm-e-Istehkam”, approved by the Federal Apex Committee on the National Action Plan, would continue at full pace.
The campaign aims to eliminate the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country.
