QUETTA: Pakistan security forces foiled infiltration attempt from Afghanistan in the Chaman sector along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, ARY News reported on Friday, citing security sources.
As per details, the timely response of Pakistan security resulted in several casualties of Afghan Taliban.
The sources said Pakistani forces responded to an alleged attempt by Afghan forces to carry out an attack in the Chaman sector.
According to the security sources, Pakistani troops responded to what they described as provocative firing from across the border and thwarted the alleged attempt.
The sources claimed that Pakistani forces carried out an effective retaliatory operation and destroyed several posts belonging to the Afghan Taliban authorities.
They further said the Pakistani forces’ response foiled what they described as an attempted infiltration into Pakistani territory.
The security sources said Pakistani forces remain prepared to respond to any attempt at infiltration into Pakistan from Afghan territory.
Earlier, Pakistan conducted precision aerial and drone strikes against military targets at 10 locations in Afghanistan in response to the drone incursion from Afghan territory, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said.
In a statement posted on X, Tarar said Pakistan’s air defence systems had detected, tracked and neutralised eight drones that had entered its airspace from Afghanistan a day earlier, before they could reach their intended targets.
Tarar strongly condemned what he described as a “deliberate and unlawful” incursion from Afghan territory, saying it constituted a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. “Islamabad had exercised its right to self-defence in response”, he added.
He said Pakistan subsequently conducted precision aerial and drone strikes against 10 locations in Afghanistan that were used for launching and storing the drones.
According to the minister, the strikes were deliberate, precise, calibrated and proportionate and were limited to identified military objectives directly linked to the attempted attacks against Pakistan.
He said Pakistan had repeatedly conveyed its concerns to the Afghan Taliban regime and its interlocutors over the continued presence of terrorist sanctuaries and support networks on Afghan soil.
Instead of dismantling those networks and taking credible and verifiable action against groups operating from Afghan territory, Tarar said, the Afghan Taliban authorities had escalated the situation through hostile drone operations.
“Pakistan will neither accept nor tolerate attacks launched from Afghan territory, whether by terrorist groups or by the Afghan Taliban regime itself,” he said.
