ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday forcefully dismissed allegations from the Afghan Taliban that its armed forces had struck a hospital in Kabul, asserting that the actual target was a military installation known as Camp Phoenix, located several kilometers away from any civilian medical facility.
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Pakistan denies rejecting China’s mediation in Afghan border clashes, as Beijing pushes for dialogue
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Ministry on Monday rejected media reports that it had turned down a Chinese offer to mediate escalating cross-border tensions with Afghanistan, insisting the two countries maintain close and regular coordination on all shared concerns and dismissing any contrary claims as “unwarranted speculation or fabrication.”
Pakistan strikes Afghan Taliban targets in Kandahar, destroying hideouts and infrastructure as border operation intensifies
ISLAMABAD: The armed forces carried out overnight airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, targeting terrorist hideouts and military infrastructure used by the Afghan Taliban and affiliated groups to stage attacks against Pakistani civilians, military officials and state media reported on Sunday.
President Zardari says Afghan Taliban forces crossed a ‘red line’ with drone attacks on civilians
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari warned on Saturday that Afghanistan’s Taliban government had crossed a dangerous threshold by launching drone attacks on Pakistani civilian areas, declaring that the strikes had brought “grave consequences upon itself” and risked a further escalation in a conflict that has already claimed dozens of lives on both sides of the porous border.
Pakistan downs Taliban-linked drones near Islamabad as debris injures civilians and tensions soar
ISLAMABAD: The security forces intercepted two rudimentary drones Friday that authorities said were launched from Afghanistan by the Taliban regime and its proxies, bringing them down with electronic countermeasures before they could strike intended targets near Rawalpindi, the garrison city adjacent to the capital.
Blast kills seven officers on patrol in Pakistan’s northwest as terrorism linked to Afghan border escalates
PESHAWAR: An improvised explosive device ripped through a police patrol vehicle in a remote tribal area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, killing seven officers including a station house officer and leaving authorities scrambling to hunt down the attackers in a region increasingly gripped by militant violence.
Pakistan and Afghanistan pause cross-border fire to recover Afghan national’s corpse, only for talks to falter
TORKHAM: Pakistani and Afghan border forces agreed Thursday to a temporary halt in their persistent cross-border skirmishes so that delegations of local elders could retrieve the body of an Afghan national that had lain unclaimed for days at the Zero Point of the Torkham crossing.
Pakistan quietly pushes for diplomacy as Tehran rejects US cease-fire proposals
ISLAMABA: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that reparations and firm international guarantees against future aggression were the only way to end the war ignited by Israel and the United States, issuing the demand in a late-night post on X after separate conversations with the leaders of Pakistan and Russia.
Pakistan says 641 Afghan Taliban militants killed in month-long border offensive
ISLAMABAD: The security forces have killed at least 641 Afghan Taliban operatives and wounded more than 855 others in a month-long border offensive that has become the most intense fighting between the two neighbors in decades, information minister said on Wednesday.
PM Sharif congratulates Iran’s new leader Khamenei, reaffirms ties amid regional tensions
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif congratulated Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on Tuesday on his appointment as Iran’s new supreme leader, sending a formal letter that offered condolences for the killing of the cleric’s father and pledged continued close cooperation between the two neighbours.