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Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Attaullah Tarar. PHOTO: APPLICATION
ISLAMABAD:
Security forces killed 67 terrorists from Fitna al-Khawarij in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Tuesday, as “Operation Ghazab Lil Haq” continued in full force across the border.
In several updates on X, Tarar said the Afghan Taliban launched coordinated cross-border attacks overnight but were effectively repelled. He described the attacks as part of a broader pattern of aggression that prompted sustained ground and air responses from Pakistani forces.
According to the minister, in northern Balochistan, terrorists carried out attacks in 16 locations in Qilla Saifullah, Noshki and Chaman districts. In addition to these ground attacks, Pakistani troops faced fire at 25 different points.
All attacks were repelled, with 27 terrorists killed and “dozens” of others injured in the exchanges, Tarar said. During the clashes, a Frontier Corps (FC) soldier from Balochistan (North) “embraced martyrdom while defending the country, and five were injured,” he added.
To KP, Tarar provided a separate operational account, indicating that a physical attack was attempted at one location while firing was carried out at 12 locations. He said all were repelled without any loss of life on the Pakistani side.
Forty Afghan Taliban were killed during overnight operations in the province, he added, noting that mine clearance and pursuit actions were still underway. The latest figures bring the total number of Afghan Taliban killed during the latest wave of engagements to 67.
So far, according to the ministry, 464 members of the Afghan Taliban regime have been killed and more than 665 injured since the launch of “Operation Ghazab Lil Haq” last Thursday in response to an attack on Pakistani forces along the Afghan border.
During the operation, the ministry said, 188 checkpoints were destroyed, 31 posts captured and 192 tanks, armored vehicles and artillery guns destroyed. Sources indicated that 56 sites were effectively targeted by air operations across Afghanistan.
On Tuesday morning, according to security sources, a large-scale air operation in Jalalabad, the main city of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, destroyed an ammunition depot and a drone storage facility. The Khogyani base, also in Nangarhar, was destroyed in an airstrike.
Pakistani forces also captured a check post in Paktika and hoisted the Pakistani flag, while three other posts were destroyed. AFP journalists in Kabul reported hearing multiple explosions and gunshots on Tuesday.
Tarar said “the security forces are thwarting the nefarious designs of the enemy with all their might and the operation will continue to its logical conclusion.” Security sources said elements of the Afghan Taliban and Fitna al-Khawarij were in retreat after the Pakistani ground and air operations.
Faced with the intensification of military exchanges, the Pakistani Ministry of Information has taken measures to counter disinformation emanating from Kabul. The ministry’s fact-checking unit categorically rejected allegations that Afghan forces carried out airstrikes on Pakistani military bases.
Islamabad dismissed the Afghan reports as “completely false” and described them as “vain efforts” aimed at creating “false success stories”. Officials said the Afghan Taliban did not have the capacity to carry out long-range air attacks.
(WITH INPUT FROM THE APPLICATION)
