In Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, two successful and precise airstrikes based on intelligence targeted militant hideouts linked to a proscribed group in the Narmi Khel area. These hideouts were set up in government school buildings that had been vacant for the past two years. Militants associated with the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group were reportedly using the locations to train suicide attackers.

Officials said around two dozen militants were killed in the strikes, including eleven suicide attackers.

Local residents of Narmi Khel told the news agency The Khorasan Diary that they had seen foreigners around Ayub School before the attacks. Reports suggest that eight of these foreigners were also killed.

Earlier, on Sunday, a major security operation in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa led to the killing of two senior commanders of the proscribed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The operation took place in the Khwaja Piar area of Darazinda.

Security sources said that three militants linked to the TTP were killed in the operation. One was Abu Darda, also known as Hakim, from Muzaffargarh, Punjab, who was responsible for TTP activities in southern Punjab and was recently seen in a video urging members of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) to join the TTP. The other was Ijaz Ahmad, also known as Abu Dajana, from Tunsa, Punjab, who had links with the recently publicized Tehreek-i-Taliban Kashmir (TTK). Sources in Islamabad revealed that Abu Dajana was also connected to Ilyas Kashmiri, the head of Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islami and commander of the 313 Brigade.

According to sources, both commanders had relocated to Afghanistan with their families before being killed in the operation.