PESHAWAR: Six Frontier Constabulary (FCN) personnel were martyred and four others injured while responding to an attempt by terrorists to capture a post in Peshawar’s Hassan Khel area on Monday.
According to sources, eight terrorists were also killed in retaliatory action, and the attempt to seize the post was successfully foiled.
The sources further said that three FCN personnel were taken hostage by the attackers during the assault.
Security force personnel later reached the site of the incident and cordoned off the entire area, the sources added.
Meanwhile, last month the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) reported in its assessment that after two consecutive months of improvement, Pakistan’s security situation deteriorated sharply in May 2026, mainly due to rising terrorist violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
The report stated that the country witnessed six suicide attacks during May, including four vehicle-borne suicide bombings, which collectively resulted in the deaths of 34 security personnel and nine civilians.
On May 9, a suicide attack in Bannu killed 15 police personnel, after which Pakistan issued a strong demarche to Afghanistan.
More than a week later, a tribal elder was among three people killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in the busy Rustam Bazaar area of Wana in Lower South Waziristan.
In early June, security forces foiled a suicide attack on a military post near Miranshah in North Waziristan.
As militancy continues in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, with frequent attacks targeting security personnel and law enforcement agencies, the state has intensified counter-terrorism operations across the region.
Earlier this month, security forces killed four terrorists during two separate intelligence-based operations in Dera Ismail Khan and Mohmand districts.
In late May, 13 militants were killed during a two-day operation in the Darra Adamkhel area bordering Kohat and Peshawar districts.
About a week before that, a fierce clash between police, a peace committee, and terrorists in Bannu’s Miryan tehsil left at least 25 terrorists dead and several others injured, while two police personnel and two civilians were martyred in the exchange of fire.