Pakistan, May 24 -- Pakistan's counterterrorism challenge is once again showing itself in several theatres, all at once. That Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police are being forced to fight militants in conditions closer to a battlefield than a police beat should be enough to remind the state that this is no ordinary law-and-order problem. Just days after militants had rammed an explosives-laden truck into a security compound in Bajaur, killing at least nine paramilitary officers, Saturday saw a joint intelligence-based operation conducted by police and the counterterrorism department (CTD) in Bannu that killed 12 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan members. A retired Federal Constabulary official was also martyred as four policemen and a child were injured d...