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Pakistan says its army forces are responding to an assault launched by the Afghan Taliban earlier on Thursday, marking the most recent escalation of violence between the neighboring nations.
“Taliban regime forces are being delivered punishment in Chitral, Khyber, Mohmand, Kurram and Bajaur sectors,” Pakistan’s data ministry stated, calling an earlier Afghanistan assault “unprovoked.”
“Pakistan will take all necessary measures to ensure its territorial integrity and the safety and security of its citizens,” the Pakistani ministry stated.
Pakistan claimed early studies point out “heavy casualties” on the Afghan aspect, and that a number of Afghan army posts and tools have been destroyed. Afghanistan didn’t instantly reply to the claims.
Earlier on Thursday, Afghanistan’s army launched an offensive in opposition to Pakistani positions, calling it a retaliation for Pakistan’s airstrikes on militant camps throughout the border in Afghanistan on Sunday that left at the least 18 folks useless.
Hamdullah Fitrat, the Taliban authorities’s deputy spokesman, claimed that Afghan forces had killed 40 Pakistani troopers in the northeastern Kunar province and captured 15 Pakistani army border posts, including that Kabul’s troops have been deployed alongside the “Durand Line,” the 1,600-mile disputed border between the 2 nations. Pakistan’s army didn’t instantly reply, and NCS is unable to independently confirm the claims.
Pakistan’s strikes on Sunday focused camps belonging to the Pakistani Taliban – also referred to as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – and its associates, in addition to a bunch related to the Islamic State, which Islamabad blames for a sequence of attacks in Pakistan, the data ministry stated.
Pakistan has seen weeks of lethal attacks and says it has “conclusive evidence” that they have been carried out by militants on the “behest of their Afghanistan based leadership and handlers.”
A fragile ceasefire between the 2 nations has been in place since October, following the deadliest wave of cross-border violence in years.
In a November interview with NCS, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif stated his nation wished to “take out” the TTP’s management in Afghanistan, stating that it could make use of “whatever means are available to us.”
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