Pakistan’s KP shares list of 1,349 wanted militants with federal authorities

Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has drawn up a list of more than 1,300 suspected militants wanted in terrorism-related cases and shared it with federal authorities, as part of a renewed push to coordinate nationwide counterterrorism efforts, according to an official document reviewed by Nukta.

The registry, prepared jointly by the KP administration and intelligence agencies, names 1,349 proclaimed offenders and assigns monetary bounties - or ‘head money’ - for their capture.

The document, circulated to all provinces and federal security institutions, aims to align local and national responses to an escalating militant threat that has resurged across parts of Pakistan’s northwest.

According to the document, the list includes names, aliases, and last-known addresses of wanted individuals, with rewards ranging from a few hundred thousand rupees to as high as PKR 30 million for top commanders.

The ten highest bounties have been placed on the following individuals:

1. Kazim Khan (alias Ahmad or Mustafa), wanted in Kurram – PKR 30 million
2. Amjad Ullah (alias Muhammad), wanted in Kurram – PKR 20 million
3. Hijrat Ullah (alias Mukhlis), from Tangay Loe, Mamond, Bajaur – PKR 17.8 million
4. Khan Farosh (alias Zabil Pai Khan), from Bajaur – PKR 15 million
5. Ismail (alias Umar, son of Dil Muhammad), from Bajaur – PKR 15 million
6. Mukaram Khan (son of Abdul Ghafoor Khan), from Kurram – PKR 15 million
7. Zakir Ullah (son of Muhammad Zahir Shah), from Damadola, Bajaur – PKR 14 million
8. Idrees (alias Yousaf), from Kashmir Mula, Mamond, Bajaur – PKR 12 million
9. Fazal Subhan (alias Mufti Borjan), from Swat – PKR 10 million
10. Qasim (alias Hanzala), from Bacha Said, Ambar, Mohmand District – PKR 9 million

The document offers a rare glimpse into Pakistan’s evolving internal security landscape, revealing a concentration of wanted militants in areas such as Bajaur, Kurram, Swat, and Mohmand, long regarded as centers of insurgent activity.

Officials familiar with the development said the compilation is meant to synchronize intelligence gathering and law enforcement between federal and provincial agencies.

The head money program, they added, is designed to incentivize information sharing and public cooperation in tracking suspects.

The inclusion of several high-value commanders with multi-million-rupee bounties underscores Islamabad’s continued struggle to contain militant networks that remain active in the mountainous northwest, even as Pakistan seeks to project stability amid renewed counterterrorism operations.