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- On September 20, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid said that a senior TTP commander identified as Gul Hasan Afghani was killed in clashes with security forces in the Boya area of North Waziristan two days earlier. He claimed that the TTP’s Mehsud faction and local Taliban carried out the attack on security forces in which Afghani was killed. The TTP also released photographs of the funeral of Commander Hasan, which was reportedly attended by TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah.[8]
- According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), 15 militants and one soldier were killed in clashes with security forces in the Boya area of North Waziristan on September 20. Three militants and one soldier were killed in a ground clearance operation while 12 militants were killed in subsequent air strikes by Pakistani Air Force jets. Air strikes also destroyed three militant hideouts.[9]
- On September 22, the ISPR stated that airstrikes killed 23 militants in the Bandigar area, Ghulam Khan, North Waziristan.[10]
- In a message on Twitter on September 19, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) spokesperson Maj. Gen. Asim Bajwa said that the Pakistani army would pursue and hunt down terrorists hiding in remote tribal areas of North Waziristan including the Datta Khel area and beyond. He also said that militants have been effectively targeted through air and ground assaults as a part of the ongoing military offensive Operation Zarb-e-Azb.[11]
- On September 22, according to a report quoting noted Pakistani analyst Najam Sethi, the Punjabi Taliban was involved in the attack on the Karachi dockyard on September 6. Sethi speculated that the Pakistani military’s goal is to divide the TTP into smaller splinters and divert their militant activities away from Pakistan.[12]
- As reported by Dawn on September 20, according to Pakistani legal firm Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), the U.S. released 14 Pakistani detainees from custody in Bagram Prison, Afghanistan. The detainees are to be repatriated to Pakistan; it is unclear whether they will be at liberty or in Pakistani custody upon their return.[13]
- On September 21, unidentified armed men killed Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader, Maulana Sher Alam Farooqi, in the Tor Gundai area of Hangu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.[14]
- On September 22, security forces shot three suspected militants and arrested four in the Wadh area of Khuzdar district in Balochistan. According to a Frontier Corps (FC) spokesperson, the militants belonged to the Lashkar-e-Balochistan and United Baloch Army. FC personnel also recovered weapons, ammunition and improvised explosive devices from the suspects.[15]
- On September 21, deputy caretaker of Taleemul Quran seminary, Mufti Amanullah, was shot dead in what the police have characterized as a targeted killing near Qasim aviation base in Rawalpindi, Punjab. Student protests erupted in Rawalpindi following the killing.[16]
- On September 20, the police allegedly arrested a key militant in a raid in Matani, Peshawar district. The militant was reportedly involved in attacks on senior police officers.[17]
- On September 22, unidentified militants attacked a police checkpost in Hangu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa killing four people including three policemen.[18]
- On September 20, police foiled an attempted terror attack when they defused an explosive device weighing 20 kilograms in the Kach Phattak area of Hangu.[19]
- On September 20, three people were injured in a bomb blast in the Jinnah Town area of Quetta.[20]
- On September 22, Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Durrani stated that a Baloch separatist group attacked the convoy of another militant commander, Yaqoob Balgatheri, killing him and 10 others in Turbat, Balochistan.[21]
- According to Pajhwok Monitor on September 20, 2014, M-16 and AK-47 assault rifles among others firearms have been selling at a brisk pace on the black market in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. Reportedly, the arms have been stolen from U.S. and N.A.T.O. forces in Afghanistan and then smuggled across the border to the FATA.[22]