Pakistan Launches Operation Shaban Against TTP, BLA in Balochistan

Pakistan's military launched Operation Shaban, a large-scale joint counterterrorism campaign across multiple Balochistan districts, conducted by the Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps Balochistan, Balochistan Police, and intelligence agencies. The operation combines ground assaults, intelligence-based operations, and helicopter-gunship-supported aerial missions targeting Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (state designation: 'Fitna al-Khawarij') and Balochistan Liberation Army hideouts and support networks in the province's mountainous terrain. The launch followed an intensifying wave of coordinated militant attacks across Balochistan in early July that killed dozens of security personnel and civilians, aiming to dismantle militant infrastructure and restore security to affected districts.