The Pakistan Army on Tuesday responded to unprovoked aggression by Afghan Taliban and Fitna al-Khawarij along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, security sources said. Fitna al-Khawarij is a term the state uses for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
According to security sources, operations under Operation Ghazab Lil Haq are continuing against the Afghan Taliban’s unprovoked aggression.
“The Pakistan Army, in the Chaman sector, effectively targeted and destroyed multiple Afghan Taliban posts,” sources said. “Afghan Taliban positions at Sarshan, Al-Marjan, Edhi Post, a vehicle and other installations were also successfully targeted,” they added.
Security sources also said the armed forces’ resolve for the defence of the country remains unwavering, adding that the designs of terrorists and their facilitators would be foiled. They further stated that Operation Ghazab Lil Haq would continue until the achievement of all assigned objectives.
On April 15, three civilians, including two children, were martyred and three others were injured when Afghan Taliban forces carried out unprovoked shelling on locals in a border area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district, according to state media.
The incident marked a renewed episode of cross-border aggression after a gap of over a month, following Operation Ghazab Lil Haq, launched in response to earlier unprovoked hostility from the Afghan side.
Operation Ghazab Lil Haq was launched around the end of February following renewed clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, after Afghan Taliban forces fired on multiple locations, prompting swift military retaliation by Pakistan.
The neighbouring countries were engaged in escalating hostilities along the frontier since then. The clashes intensified after Afghanistan launched a border offensive in response to Pakistani air strikes targeting terrorist positions and abated during a temporary ceasefire on the occasion of Eidul Fitr.