The exchange inflicted severe damage on multiple Taliban posts, while flames were seen rising from their positions, the sources added.
The sources further confirmed that a Taliban tank was destroyed in the counter-fire, forcing the attackers to abandon their posts and flee from the area.
Security sources reaffirmed that Pakistan’s forces remain on high alert and are fully capable of defending every inch of the country’s borders against any aggression.
Meanwhile, sources further said that the Pakistan armed forces destroyed another Afghan Taliban post and tank position in Kurram sector, adding that Taliban forces fled, leaving several bodies at the post.
This marks the second incident in recent days involving cross-border aggression by the Afghan Taliban and Fitna al-Khawarij. On the night of October 11, Afghan forces had opened unprovoked fire at multiple border points, including Angoor Adda, Bajaur, and Kurram, with similar attacks also reported in Dir, Chitral, Baramcha, and other areas along the Durand Line.
Pakistani forces retaliated swiftly, striking Afghanistan’s border posts and terrorist hideouts across multiple border points overnight, destroying several Afghan posts, and killing more than 200 Afghan Taliban and affiliated terrorists, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
In a statement, the military’s media wing said that Pakistani forces carried out “precision fires and strikes, as well as physical raids, directed against Taliban camps and posts, terrorist training facilities and support networks operating from Afghan territory”.
“Multiple Taliban locations were destroyed all along the border; 21 hostile positions on the Afghan side of the border were also briefly physically captured and multiple terrorist training camps, used to plan and facilitate attacks against Pakistan, were rendered inoperative,” it said, adding that 23 soldiers embraced martyrdom while defending the motherland.
Heightened tensions
Islamabad and Kabul are witnessing heightened tensions amid the interim Afghan government’s reluctance to act against terrorist groups, operating from Afghan soil, in the backdrop of rising terror attacks in Pakistan.
The country has witnessed a surge in cross-border terror incidents since Taliban rulers returned to Afghanistan in 2021, particularly in the bordering provinces of KP and Balochistan.
