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ISLAMABAD: 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\u00a0 said on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n In a statement posted on X, Tarar said Pakistan\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Tarar strongly condemned what he described as a \u201cdeliberate and unlawful\u201d incursion from Afghan territory, saying it constituted a violation of Pakistan\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity. \u201cIslamabad had exercised its right to self-defence in response\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n He said Pakistan subsequently conducted precision aerial and drone strikes against 10 locations in Afghanistan that were used for launching and storing the drones.<\/p>\n According to the minister,\u00a0 the strikes were deliberate, precise, calibrated and proportionate and were limited to identified military objectives directly linked to the attempted attacks against Pakistan.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n