FATA
PESHAWAR: As active combat operations are reaching their ultimate end, the Army has assumed the monitoring role in education and health sectors in FATA, insist multiple sources. Dawn
Pakistan
RAWALPINDI: Condemning the brutal Indian killings of innocent Kashmiri youth, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif reiterated that the world needed to recognize the aspirations of Kashmiri people and their struggle for freedom, and help resolve the longstanding dispute for lasting amity in Kashmir and enduring peace in the region. The News
RAWALPINDI: The mastermind of the attack on the Army Public School (APS), Peshawar, and head of a banned terrorist outfit Umar Narai alias Khalifa Khalid Umar or Khalid Khurasani has been killed in a drone attack in Afghanistan. The News, Dawn, The Daily Times
WASHINGTON: A handful of US lawmakers have sought additional measures against Pakistan alleging that the country has failed to take action against terrorist groups. The News, Dawn
OKARA: Six terrorists were killed in a joint raid of the police and security forces in a village of, police said. The News, Dawn, The Daily Times, The Daily Aaj
ISLAMABAD: Corps commanders deliberated steps for preventing terrorists from carrying out cross-border attacks in Afghanistan and strengthening border controls. Dawn
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court directed the National Accountability Bureau chairman and its Khyber Pakhtunkhwa director general to file replies on a petition challenging the arrest of an industrialist by the bureau in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas to recover disputed electricity dues. Daw
ISLAMABAD: A terror bid to blow up 14 schools in district Jhang was foiled due to timely action by the Pakistan Army and the facilitators and planners of this bid were apprehended. The Daily Times
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Army’s Inter-Services Public Relations on confirmed the killing of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan commander Umar Naray in a CIA-controlled unmanned drone in Afghanistan. The Daily Times
AFGHANISTAN
NANGARHAR: Known terrorist leader Umar Khalifa was killed July 9 along with four other enemy combatants in a U.S. Forces-Afghanistan airstrike targeting Islamic State-Khorasan Province members in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. Khaama
NANGARHAR: A radio station run by the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group was destroyed in a drone strike carried out by the US forces in Afghanistan in Kharawa area of Achin district. Khaama
NANGARHAR: At least 12 loyalists of the terror group (ISIS) were killed in separate drone strike in Momand Dara. Khaama
BADAKHSHAN: A Tajikistani terrorist killed himself by jumping into a river before the Afghan intelligence operatives mange to arrest him. The terrorist was among four arrested during an operation of the Afghan intelligence operatives in northeastern Badakhshan province. Khaama
KABUL: An official in ARG Presidential Palace has said there are no plans to revive peace talks with the Taliban group as efforts to bring the group have not yielded any positive result. Khaama
KABUL: A US lawmaker has said Pakistan is using terrorism as a tool for its strategic needs as a handful of US lawmakers sought additional measures against Pakistan insisting that the country has failed to take action against terrorist groups. Khaama
