ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has categorically denied any involvement in violence in eastern Afghanistan after the Taliban regime accused Islamabad’s security forces and intelligence agencies of recruiting former Afghan soldiers and funnelling Islamic State-linked fighters across the border — allegations that surfaced hours before a rival account emerged suggesting the casualties in question came from an unrelated battle against an anti-Taliban resistance group.
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TTP suicide bomber kills 12 at DI Khan police checkpost near Afghan border
A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives at a police checkpost in north-western Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 12 people and wounding around 30 others in an attack the Pakistani Taliban has claimed as its own.
Uneasy calm along Afghan border after Pakistan says 13 Taliban fighters killed in overnight clash
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said its forces had killed at least 13 Afghan Taliban fighters after repelling an attempted incursion in the Gulistan sector of Balochistan in an overnight border clash, while Afghanistan insisted its troops had suffered no casualties and had instead destroyed a Pakistani military post near the town of Spin Boldak, on the Kandahar side of the frontier, in the latest flashpoint between the two neighbours that has already claimed dozens of lives this week.
Pakistan hits 10 targets inside Afghanistan in retaliation for drone incursion
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has carried out air and drone strikes against 10 locations inside Afghanistan, in the second cross-border military action in three days and the latest escalation in a rapidly deteriorating conflict with the Taliban government in Kabul.
Pakistan shoots down eight drones in latest Afghan border clash
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s air defence systems shot down eight drones launched from Afghanistan early on Wednesday, four of them near the Torkham border crossing and four in the mountains around Kohat, as the military accused the Taliban administration in Kabul of a “cowardly attempt” to strike civilian areas.
Pakistan repels militant infiltration bid, drives Afghan Taliban from border posts
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani troops forced Afghan Taliban to abandon several checkposts along the border on Tuesday, security sources said, after opening retaliatory fire in response to unprovoked shooting by Afghan forces following a foiled militant infiltration attempt in Kurram.
Pakistan strikes militant camps in Afghanistan, killing 28, officials say
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has carried out air strikes on suspected militant camps along the Afghan border, killing 28 terrorists, days after a suicide bombing and gun assault on a police compound in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa left more than 20 people dead.
Pakistan strikes across the Afghan border after police compound assault – report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has carried out airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan, killing at least three, in a move that threatens to reignite conflict between the neighbours after nearly three months of relative calm, Reuters reported on Monday.
Pakistan warns Imran Khan’s party of a ‘once-and-for-all’ response to planned capital march
LAHORE: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has warned the jailed Imran Khan’s party that it faces a “once-and-for-all” solution if it presses ahead with a march on Islamabad next Sunday, as the government weighs imposing governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and police detain three of the former prime minister’s sisters.
Pakistan rejects Taliban ‘pretence of dialogue’, warns terrorists will be hit ‘wherever they are’ after Kohat attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has accused the Afghan Taliban of using the “pretence of dialogue” to shield militants, as it warned it had the “will and capability” to eliminate terrorist threats “wherever they are” following a suicide attack on a police mosque that killed at least 23 people.