Pakistan strikes 10 sites in Afghanistan after drones cross border
Pakistan said it carried out precision aerial and drone strikes against 10 locations in Afghanistan on Thursday, a day after its air defences shot down eight drones launched from Afghan territory.
Pakistan said it carried out precision aerial and drone strikes against 10 locations in Afghanistan on Thursday, in what the government described as a calibrated response to a drone incursion from Afghan territory a day earlier.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said in a statement posted on X that the strikes were “deliberate, precise, calibrated and proportionate” and strictly limited to identified military objectives directly linked to attempted attacks against Pakistan.
The strikes came a day after Pakistan’s air defence systems detected and shot down eight drones that entered its airspace from Afghanistan on Wednesday — four near the Torkham border crossing and four near Kohat — according to security sources cited by The Express Tribune.
The Afghan Taliban government denied carrying out any drone attack against Pakistan. Defence ministry spokesman Sediqullah Nusrat told the BBC that Afghanistan had not launched any attack and that the Afghan Air Force had not conducted any drone strikes.
Pakistan said it had repeatedly conveyed its concerns to the Afghan Taliban regime over “terrorist sanctuaries” on Afghan soil, adding that Islamabad “would neither accept nor tolerate attacks launched from Afghan territory.”
The exchange follows Pakistani strikes near the Afghan border earlier this week that Islamabad said killed 37 terrorists.
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