On 18 December 2022, the Pakistani Taliban carried out an attack on a counterterrorism centre in the Bannu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

[1] An Islamist insurgency began in 2004 in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and North-West Frontier Province, which are now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

On 18 December 2022, terrorists incarcerated at a Counter Terrorism Department facility in Bannu Cantt, Pakistan managed to escape their cells and held security personnel hostage for over 48 hours.

[4] According to the Provincial government spokesperson the militant demanding the safe passage to Afghanistan via helicopter[5][6] They took all the workers of the centre as hostages.

[8] On 20 December at 12:30 pm, the Special Service Group launched an operation in which all the terrorists were killed and hostages were freed.