Pakistan’s media outlet Khorasan Diary, citing security sources, reported that Pakistan carried out an airstrike targeting the Taliban’s Ismat military base in Kandahar province.
Reports said Pakistani drones were also spotted in Afghan airspace as efforts continued to identify and target more Taliban military positions.
The incident comes shortly after Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that more than 50 Pakistani soldiers were killed in overnight clashes between Taliban and Pakistani forces. Pakistani intelligence sources denied this claim and insisted that Islamabad would soon release strong and irrefutable evidence of heavy Afghan casualties and capture of Taliban border outposts by Pakistani forces.
Pakistan’s military also reported capturing 19 Taliban border posts, inflicting heavy losses on Taliban fighters, and killing dozens of members of the Tehreek Taliban.
Pakistan’s president and prime minister had earlier issued separate statements strongly condemning the Afghan Taliban’s aggressive and unilateral provocations and warning Kabul against any leniency in curbing terrorism.
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