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Pakistan has launched Operation Ghazab Lil Haq against the Afghan Taliban authorities aft Kabul claimed its forces killed 55 Pakistani soldiers successful cross-border strikes, sharply escalating tensions on the volatile Durand Line.State broadcaster PTV News said the cognition was initiated successful effect to what it called “unprovoked aggression” from Afghanistan. According to the channel, 58 “Afghan kharjis” person been killed truthful far, much than 100 injured, and 12 Afghan posts wholly destroyed. It besides reported that implicit 30 Afghan tanks, artillery guns and armoured unit carriers were destroyed during the operation.Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said the equipped forces were delivering a “crushing response” to aggression from the Afghan Taliban.
He urged the PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities to basal “shoulder to shoulder” with the national authorities and different provinces successful defending the country.The escalation follows claims by the Taliban-led Afghan authorities that it had seized 19 Pakistani subject outposts and captured a large office astatine Anzar Sar successful Khost province. Afghanistan’s Deputy Spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat wrote connected X that “heavy retaliatory violative operations” were launched on the alleged Durand Line by the 203 Mansouri Corps and the 201 Khalid bin Walid Corps.
“To date, 1 office and nineteen outposts person been captured,” helium said, adding that “up to fifty-five Pakistani soldiers person been killed,” with 23 bodies recovered and others taken alive. He claimed dozens of weapons were seized and that operations were continuing crossed respective eastbound provinces, including Paktia, Paktika and Nangarhar, arsenic good arsenic astatine the Torkham Gate crossing.Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the violative was successful effect to repeated Pakistani assaults.
“Extensive violative operations person begun against Pakistani service centers and subject facilities on the Durand Line,” helium posted.Islamabad has rejected Kabul’s casualty figures. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said 2 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 3 wounded, portion 36 Afghan fighters had died. He described Afghanistan’s actions arsenic unprovoked and said Pakistan was giving a “strong and effectual response”.The clashes travel Pakistani airstrikes earlier this week that Islamabad said targeted militant grooming camps adjacent the border. Afghanistan said the strikes killed civilians, including women and children, and called them a usurpation of its sovereignty.With some sides trading dense occurrence and evacuations reported adjacent the Torkham crossing, fears are mounting of a wider confrontation betwixt the 2 neighbours.
