- An overnight militant attack on a police post in northwestern Pakistan resulted in the deaths of 11 people, including a senior police officer, with over two dozen officers wounded.
- The assault took place at the Khazina police post in Hangu district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a region bordering Afghanistan.
- Security forces engaged the militants in an hour-long gunbattle, killing 15 of them after they attacked the post with heavy weapons and ambushed arriving reinforcements.
- Diyar Khan, a senior police officer who led reinforcements to the scene, was among those killed during the intense confrontation.
- While no group immediately claimed responsibility, suspicion falls on the Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP), which has increased attacks in the region, with Pakistan accusing Afghanistan's Taliban government of harbouring TTP militants.
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