The Pakistan Army has destroyed several Afghan Taliban posts and military positions in areas adjoining South Waziristan and Parachinar, state-run Radio Pakistan reported on Friday, citing security sources.
The sources said the army used heavy weaponry along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the Angoor Adda area after what they called unprovoked firing by Afghan Taliban forces, forcing personnel to abandon their posts and flee. Several fighters of the Afghan Taliban regime were killed in the operation, according to the same account. Security forces, the report added, remain committed to defending the country and its people, with no compromise on national security.
What happened at Angoor Adda
On 27 October, Afghan forces opened fire on Pakistani border posts and residential areas in Angoor Adda, Lower South Waziristan. Officials said the fire came from posts inside Afghan territory and included sniper, small and heavy weapons. Mortar shelling struck a residential area, killing one civilian and injuring five members of the same family.
Sources said Pakistani forces responded at once, engaging multiple Afghan Taliban border posts, mortar positions and defensive bunkers with small and heavy arms, including artillery. State media later linked that response to the destruction of posts near South Waziristan and Parachinar. One account placed the Angoor Adda firing on Tuesday; another referred to Thursday, while both tied the latest escalation to the 27 October civilian casualties.
Angoor Adda is among the most sensitive crossings on the Pak-Afghan border and a major route for trade and public movement between the two countries.
Official statements and the wider dispute
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi condemned the firing and said Pakistan would never tolerate attacks on its population or violations of its territorial sovereignty.
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence accused Pakistani forces of striking Afghan installations. Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting rejected that account as a fabrication of lies.
Islamabad has repeatedly urged the Afghan Taliban administration in Kabul to stop terrorist groups—especially the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), militants who attack inside Pakistan—from using Afghan soil. Officials say those appeals have not been heeded; Kabul has rejected the claims.
Timeline: what has happened so far
- 26 February: Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said Operation Ghazab lil Haq was launched after unprovoked cross-border firing by the Afghan Taliban.
- 21 September: Pakistan carried out what the government called calibrated airstrikes on terrorist hideouts in the border region, saying more than 28 terrorists were killed, after major attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- Late September: Pakistan said it shot down eight drones that entered its airspace near Torkham and Kohat, then conducted precision aerial and drone strikes at 10 locations in Afghanistan; a demarche was delivered on 26 September over the 23 September airspace violation.
- 1 October: The information ministry said Pakistan again conducted well-planned airstrikes on terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of multiple terrorists.
- Mid-October: Security sources said the army responded to unprovoked Afghan Taliban firing in Upper Kurram, targeting the Topsar post and Shipola base camp with artillery and reportedly destroying the latter; several Afghan Taliban personnel were said to have been killed near the Ghuzgarhi border.
- 27 October: Afghan fire on Angoor Adda posts and homes killed one civilian and injured five; Pakistan later reported destroying Afghan Taliban posts near South Waziristan and Parachinar.
Aasan alfaaz mein
Pak fauj ne Afghan Taliban ki kai border chowkiyan tohr di hain, Angoor Adda aur Parachinar ke paas. Yeh jawab us firing ka hai jis mein aik Pakistani shehri maara gaya aur aik family ke paanch log zakhmi hue. Security sources ke mutabiq kai Taliban log bhi mare, aur baqi ne apni chowkiyan chhor di. Sarhad ke ilaqon mein rehnewalon ke liye yeh dobara yaad dilata hai ke tension se ghar, bazaar aur travel unsafe ho sakte hain.
