Provincial crackdown

KP Gold Mining Crackdown

Illegal gold mining along the Indus near Kohat has become a provincial security, revenue and environmental problem at once. On 14 November 2026 the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cancelled every gold mining lease in the province, suspended mining activities and directed contractors to remove machinery within a week, three days after a police raid on an illegal mining network was ambushed. This hub follows that decision, the task force named after the officer killed in the ambush, the judicial commission, the new mining policy the province has promised and the account the government gives of where the money went.