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Four terrorists belonging to Indian proxy neutralised in Mastung
- Sanitisation operation underway to clear remaining threats.
- ISPR vows to eliminate Indian-sponsored terrorism.
- Security forces reaffirm nation’s resolve against terrorism.
Security forces on Friday eliminated four terrorists belonging to the Indian proxy, Fitna al Hindustan, during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Balochistan’s Mastung.
During the conduct of the operation, the security personnel effectively engaged the terrorists’ location, and after an intense fire exchange, four Indian-sponsored terrorists were neutralised, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
Weapons, ammunition and explosives were also recovered from the terrorists, who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area.
The security forces were conducting a sanitisation operation to eliminate any other terrorists found in the area, it added.
The security forces “are determined to wipe out the menace of Indian sponsored terrorism from the country, and reaffirm the nation’s unwavering resolve to bring the perpetrators of terrorism to justice”, it concluded.
Pakistan has witnessed a surge in cross-border terror incidents since Taliban rulers returned to Afghanistan in 2021, particularly in the bordering provinces of KP and Balochistan.
The country witnessed a sharp escalation in militant attacks in August, with incidents surging by 74% compared to July, according to a report by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS).
The Islamabad-based think tank recorded 194 fatalities from militant attacks during the month.
Meanwhile, in an alarming disclosure, government officials have disclosed that there are more than 8,000 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), declared “Fitna al-Khawarij”, terrorists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The terrorists, the officials added, have crossed into the country from neighbouring Afghanistan via lesser-known routes through the porous border and are present in Peshawar, Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Swat, Shangla and merged districts.
Saying that the militants set up checkpoints on the CPEC Road, DI Khan-Bannu Road and in Tank, the officials said that the terrorists take refuge in the general population and attack security forces.
KP, as per the police report, has witnessed more than 600 terrorism incidents in the first eight months of 2025.
There were 605 terror incidents in the province till August, which resulted in the martyrdom of 138 civilians, while 352 others were left wounded.
Whereas 79 police personnel were martyred and 130 were injured, the report added.
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Lucien Laviscount wants to steal THIS from ‘Emily in Paris’ set
Lucien Laviscount knows what he’ll grab from the set of Emily in Paris.
Lucien, who plays heartthrob Londoner Alfie in Emily in Paris, was asked what he’d take from the set if he could steal somtrhing.
“I think Alfie has the best suiting on the show, so I’d probably be stealing all of the suits from Alfie’s wardrobe,” he told People.
“I’m taking every suit that Alfie wears, 100 percent,” Laviscount added.
The actor previously teased the upcoming season, which follows Emily’s work trip to Rome, away from Alfie and her original lover Gabriel.
“All I’m gonna say is strap in,” the actor said. “Because it goes left, so far left, and a little bit right this season.”
“Yeah, I don’t think anyone could have foreseen that coming,” he teased.
He alos went on to note a similarity between him and his character, saying, “I think Alfie kind of always speaks his truth, which I’d like to say is a trait of mine. In the most difficult situations, he speaks the truth. I like to say I’m pretty similar in that respect.”
“I love playing Alfie. Alfie’s been an amazing part of my life now. It’s been cool,” he added.
Emily in Paris season 5 will stream on Netflix from Dec. 18.
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Jamie Lee Curtis addresses ‘mistranslated’ statement
Jamie Lee Curtis mentioned that her reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death was “mistranslated.”
The 66-year-old actress became emotional as she appeared on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast after the US conservative activist’s murder last month but has denied that she was supporting Kirk’s controversial views.
Jamie told Variety: “An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying as I wished him well – like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t; I was simply talking about his faith in God. And so, it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not.”
She continued, “In the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time: I cannot be Jewish and totally believe in Israel’s right to exist and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza.
“You can’t say that, because you get vilified for having a mind that says, ‘I can hold both those thoughts. I can be contradictory in that way,'” the Freaky Friday star mentioned.
Jamie also proudly said that she is happy to be outspoken and doesn’t intend to be “careful” when expressing her views.
She said: “I don’t have to be careful.”
“If I was careful, I wouldn’t have told you any of what I just told you. I would have just said, ‘Hi, welcome. I baked you banana bread. Here’s my dog. Here’s my house, blah, blah, blah. What do you want to know?’ I can’t not be who I am in the moment I am,” Jamie Lee Curtis concluded.
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Ben Stiller highlights the impact of famous parents as a ‘nepo baby’
Ben Stiller has just come forward with his personal take on what having famous parents is like, as well as the term ‘nepo baby’ that follows many star kids around their whole life.
The conversation itself happened on The Howard Stern Show and showed the star being candid.
What is also pertinent to mention is that Stiller just released a documentary on his famous parents just recently too, its titled Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost.
In that chat he started off by hailing that term, rather than putting it down because to Stiller the moniker is more like a “selling point” than anything else.
“I think it’s kind of like that Brat Pack thing, right?” he also noted. “New York Magazine, they coined a phrase, and then it just became a thing.”
“But it’s always been what it is, in humanity and life. It’s like, you buy a violin, a Stradivarius or whatever, it’s been in the family for hundreds of years. That’s a selling point.”
However, he did make sure to point out that there are “other arguments to be made about access and all those things,” even though he also saw the less glamorous, sometimes bad sides of that limelight too, growing up.
“For me, I think growing up around it, we’re talking about all these things that I saw with my parents, you actually, as a kid, see the dark underside of it. The stress, the effects it has on relationships. You see that up close as a kid, and then you still wanna go into it,” he admitted during that chat too.
During that chat he also recalled how his mom’s influence effected his very first acting job too, which was an off-Broadway production called House of Blue Leaves.
He explained he didn’t make it on his own and “couldn’t get in because the casting director didn’t want to see me” but the final call back came as “a favor” from is mom.
But regardless, before concluding he made it a point to add, “if you have the passion, you do it. You go for it.”
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