Pakistan's security forces today claimed to have shot down several Afghan Taliban fighters after repelling an incursion attempt from Afghanistan across the border with Baluchistan Province (southwest).
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25/09/2026
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According to an official statement, fighters attempted to enter Pakistani territory on Thursday through the Gulistan sector, causing a response from the security forces.
The military report added that there is still an “intermittent exchange of fire” in the border area and that Pakistani troops remain in “maximum alert” to possible new raids.
The confrontation took place one day after the Taliban Government denounced the death of four Afghan civilians in Pakistani bombings against the provinces of Kandahar, Paktia and Khost, and threatened to respond to what it called “brutal aggression”.
Pakistan confirmed that it carried out air strikes in Afghanistan against 10 locations, allegedly used to launch drone attacks against Pakistani territory on Wednesday.
Pakistan has repeatedly accused the Taliban government of allowing networks of Islamic fundamentalist militants to operate from their territory and carry out attacks across the border, an accusation Kabul denies.
“ Instead of dismantling these networks and taking credible and verifiable measures against those using Afghan territory to carry out acts of terrorism against Pakistan, the Afghan Taliban regime chose to scale the situation through hostile drone operations against Pakistan,” said Pakistani Minister of Information.
“ The attacks were deliberate, precise, calibrated and proportional, strictly limited to identified military targets and directly linked to attempts to attack Pakistan,” added Attaullah Tarar, on social network X.
A resident of Kandahar, where the supreme leader of the Taliban authorities lives, told the news agency France-Presse that the city, located in the south of the country, was attacked on Thursday.
The witness heard the noise of a jet plane, followed by a massive explosion, and witnessed a fire at the center of Afghanistan’s second largest city, where the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, resides.
The new escalation of tension threatens the mediation efforts led by China, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to achieve a lasting peace between Kabul and Islamabad.
Pakistani Taliban, formally known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, intensified attacks on Pakistan’s security forces, driven by the return of Afghan Taliban to power in Afghanistan in 2021.