{"id":1150311,"date":"2026-01-23T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1150311"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:55:57","slug":"security-forces-foil-major-terror-plot-in-kohat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/security-forces-foil-major-terror-plot-in-kohat\/","title":{"rendered":"Security forces foil major terror plot in Kohat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>KOHAT, Jan 23 (APP):The Security forces, district police, and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday successfully thwarted a major<\/div>\n<div>terror plot in Kohat, saving the city from a potential large-scale\u00a0 disaster.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On a tip off, a joint operation was launched in the jurisdiction of MRS Police Station, where a farmhouse was raided after<\/div>\n<div>reports indicated the presence of a dangerous terrorist network planning attacks in the city and surrounding areas, the police sources said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under the directives of Inspector General of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police (IGP), Zulfiqar Hameed and Regional Police Officer Kohat, Irfan Tariq, District Police Officer (DPO) Kohat, Shehbaz Elahi supervised the<\/div>\n<div>operation. The area was cordoned off and monitored with advanced<\/div>\n<div>surveillance equipment before ground forces stormed the compound.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Although the terrorists managed to escape under the cover of darkness, they left behind a significant cache of weapons and explosives.<\/div>\n<div>The recovered items included two\u00a0 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), large quantities of explosive material, detonators, hand grenades, primacord, three laptops, communication devices, medical<\/div>\n<div>kits, and other military-grade equipment.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>All seized material had been\u00a0 shifted to a safe location for technical analysis by expert teams, they added.<\/div>\n<div>The security across the city has been further tightened, while search operations and checkpoints continue to track down the fleeing suspects.<\/div>\n<div>The authorities appealed to the public to remain vigilant and immediately report any suspicious activity to the nearest police station to ensure peace and stability in the region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOHAT, Jan 23 (APP):The Security forces, district police, and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday successfully thwarted a major terror plot in Kohat, saving the city from a potential large-scale\u00a0 disaster. On a tip off, a joint operation was launched in the jurisdiction of MRS Police Station, where a farmhouse was raided after reports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1150312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[306,2975,5293],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1150311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic","tag-kohat-news","tag-security-forces","tag-terror","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1150312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150311"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1150311"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1150311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}