On July 9, 2026, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened Balochistan’s Provincial Apex Committee in Quetta, Field Marshal Asim Munir at his side, after a wave of attacks that had killed 42 people, four civilians, twenty-seven police officers and eleven security personnel, in the space of five days (Dawn 2026). What followed, Operation Shaban, was described by officials briefing The Diplomat as a sustained campaign to dismantle militant infrastruc…
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