(14 Aug 2025)
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Bajaur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan – 14 August 2025
1. Various of camp hosting internally displaced persons affected by the Bajur military operation
2. Various of people taking water from tanker, people walking with pots
3. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Abidullah (no last name given), displaced from Mohmand District:
"We have left our homes, farms and shops and have come here to take shelter. Now, complete this operation quickly because we are suffering in the tents, and our children are disturbed by the heat, so that we can return to our homes."
4. Various of exteriors of Bajaur sports complex
5. Various of people sitting at the footpath of road in the sports complex
6. Various of solar panels and cattle that displaced people brought from their homes
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Shah Mehmood, displaced man from Mamund Tehsil:
"When the operation began, the warplanes came and were flying above our heads, after which the fighting started. We already had the fear from the past operation in our hearts, so we began to get scared. We left our full house in the name of God and just to save our lives."
8. Traffic
9. Various of displaced people moving to camps along with their belongings
10. Women and children waiting on roadside
11. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Suhail Khan, Deputy Superintendent of Police in Bajaur:
"Targeted operations have been started in different areas. The internally displaced persons have come from 16 areas, including Damadola, Chautra and Ghakhii, and they have been accommodated in different schools. The administration has allocated space."
12. Various of security personnel guarding camp of displaced people
STORYLINE:
Pakistani security forces have launched a “targeted operation” against militants in a restive northwestern district bordering Afghanistan, displacing tens of thousands of residents who have fled to safer areas, officials said Tuesday.
There was no formal announcement of the launch of the offensive in Bajaur, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, but a government administrator said it was not a large-scale operation and only insurgent hideouts were being hit to avoid civilian casualties.
Another government administrator said the number of displaced people had rapidly increased to nearly 100,000.
Residents reported that security forces, backed by helicopters, struck militant hideouts in the mountainous areas along the Afghan border.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s police chief said the operation was ongoing.
Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, are a separate group but a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their pullout from the country after 20 years of war.
Many TTP leaders and fighters have found sanctuary in Afghanistan and have been living there openly since the Taliban takeover, and some have crossed the border back into Bajaur and carried out attacks.
Pakistan also carried out a major operation in Bajaur against Pakistani and foreign militants in 2009, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
Production by Muhammad Farooq
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