ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday condemned the US and Israeli strikes on Iran as “unwarranted” and called for the urgent resumption of diplomacy to resolve the crisis, while also strongly denouncing Iran’s retaliatory missile attacks on several Gulf Arab states as blatant violations of their sovereignty.
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Pakistan says 352 Taliban killed in cross-border operation as clashes with Afghanistan enter third day
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani forces killed 331 Afghan Taliban militants and wounded more than 500 others in “Operation Ghazab lil Haq,” Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Saturday, providing the most detailed accounting yet of a military campaign that has thrust Pakistan and Afghanistan into their most serious confrontation in years.
Pakistan presses border strikes in Afghanistan, says 297 militants killed; Taliban offers talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s armed forces continued ground and air operations against Afghan Taliban positions overnight and into Saturday, security sources said, in a sustained response to Taliban-linked terrorism emanating from Afghan soil.
At OIC summit, Foreign Minister Dar demands reversal of Israeli moves in occupied West Bank
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister on Friday condemned Israel’s approval of procedures to register large areas of the occupied West Bank as state property, describing the move as the latest sign of an “annexationist and expansionist mindset” that disregards international law and humanitarian norms.
PM Sharif, after military briefing, declares zero tolerance for Afghan Taliban attacks
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited General Headquarters in Rawalpindi on Friday, receiving a detailed briefing from military leaders on the tense situation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border following unprovoked attacks by Afghan Taliban forces the previous day.
Global powers urge Pakistan and Afghanistan to halt border attacks and pursue diplomacy
ISLAMABAD: Global powers moved swiftly on Friday to contain rising tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan, issuing urgent appeals for both sides to stop cross-border attacks and return to diplomatic channels before the situation spirals further.
Pakistan says it killed at least 274 in retaliatory strikes against Afghan Taliban after unprovoked border attacks
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s military said Friday that it had killed at least 274 personnel of the Afghan Taliban regime and affiliated terrorists in a sweeping retaliatory operation that followed an unprovoked cross-border firing from Afghanistan the previous night.
Pakistan strikes Kabul, other provinces after border clashes kill 133 Afghan Taliban
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Pakistani forces carried out airstrikes and ground operations targeting Taliban military installations across multiple provinces inside Afghanistan early on Friday, destroying
UPADTED – Pakistan launches ‘Operation Ghazab-lil-Haqq’; air strikes hit Nangarhar, 72 Afghan Taliban killed in border clashes
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Air Force jets carried out strikes inside Afghanistan, destroying a major ammunition depot in Nangarhar province, as security forces killed 72 Afghan Taliban militants and wounded more than 120 others in an intensified response to unprovoked cross-border attacks, officials said on Friday.
UPDATED – Pakistan launches ‘Operation Ghazab-lil-Haqq’; air strikes hit Nangarhar, 58 Afghan Taliban killed in border clashes
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Air Force jets carried out strikes inside Afghanistan, destroying a major ammunition depot in Nangarhar province, as security forces killed 58 Afghan Taliban militants and wounded more than 100 others in an intensified response to unprovoked cross-border attacks, sources said on Friday.