On March 12, 2023, a soldier of the Frontier Constabulary was killed in an armed attack on a check post in the Baka Khel area of Bannu district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Jabhat Ansar al-Mahdi (Khorasan/Waziristan), an outfit affiliated with the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, took responsibility for the attack and simultaneously