A militant commander Ghafoor alias Jaleel was killed during an intelligence based-operation (IBO) in the Bajaur district of Malakand Division in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the military's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations said on Saturday.

“Terrorist Ghafoor alias Jaleel was [a] close acquaintance of Moulvi Faqir Muhammad and was involved in many terrorist activities,” according to the ISPR statement.

It added that one security official got injured during the exchange of fire.

Earlier this week, a Pakistan army soldier was martyred after terrorists attacked a check post along the Pakistan-Iran border in Abdoi Sector, Balochistan. “During [the] heavy exchange of fire, Lance Naik Zaheer Ahmed, a resident of Nushki, embraced martyrdom fighting valiantly,” the ISPR had said in a statement.