PAKISTAN – Pakistani army on Thursday said that it carried out a military operation near the Afghan border on Wednesday and killed 30 militants.

Security forces carried out separate operations in the Kurram district near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Wednesday, killing 23 militants in Kurram, four in Mohmand, two in Lakki Marwat, and one in Tank districts according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistani army, said in a statement.

Meanwhile, at least two police officials were killed and four others wounded when a bomb exploded near their vehicle in Dera Ismail Khan district on Thursday, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi confirmed to the media.

Pakistani forces have escalated their intelligence-based operations in multiple districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after recent attacks in the capital Islamabad and various parts of the province.

On Monday, the military also killed at least four militants in Bajaur, North Waziristan and Dera Ismail Khan.

A day earlier, the ISPR said that the military killed at least 23 militants in two major clashes in the Bajaur and Bannu districts.

On Sunday, at least 15 more militants were killed during operations in the Dera Ismail Khan and North Waziristan districts.

Last week, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Judicial Complex in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, killing at least 12 people and injuring nearly three dozen others.

Earlier, militants attacked Cadet College in the Wana region of the South Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border. Security forces foiled the attack and killed all five militants who entered the college after a suicide bomber destroyed the main gate.