Afghan Taliban suffer ‘heavy losses’ as Pakistani military launches ‘Operation Ghazab Lil Haq’

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani military has targeted important military bases of the Afghan Taliban regime in Kabul, Kandahar, and Paktia through effective airstrikes, security sources confirmed early Friday.

The Pakistan Air Force carried out airstrikes as part of ‘Operation Ghazab Lil Haq’ to target the militant infrastructure within Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, security sources said. In the latest round of operations, two brigade headquarters in Kabul were destroyed, security sources said.

In Kandahar, airstrikes destroyed a corps headquarters and a brigade headquarters, as well as an ammunition depot and a logistics base. In Paktia, a corps headquarters of the Taliban was also destroyed in the airstrikes.

In addition, Pakistani jets are carrying out aerial patrols over Kandahar after recent airstrikes, security sources said.

“After carrying out precise airstrikes, our aircraft are now patrolling Kandahar’s airspace,” the sources said, adding that the Pakistani military is “fully prepared to respond decisively to any aggression.”

Security sources further said that the security forces are carrying out strong and effective operations against Taliban forces along the Torkham border.

The Pakistan Army has targeted various Taliban check posts near the Torkham border with precision, weakening their positions significantly, sources said.

The forces successfully captured a Taliban position in the vicinity of the Shawal sector in South Waziristan, near the Afghan province of Paktika, they said.

“Pakistani forces have authorised retaliatory strikes and multiple iterations in response to Afghan aggression,” Prime Minister’s Spokesperson Mosharraf Zaidi said in a statement on X.

According to the spokesperson, “A total of 133 Afghan Taliban are confirmed killed, more than 200 wounded. Many more casualties estimated in strikes in Kabul, Paktia, and Kandahar military targets.”

Twenty-seven Taliban posts have been destroyed, and nine more have been captured by our security forces,” Zaidi said, emphasizing the extent of the military action.

The spokesperson said that the military operations targeted major Taliban infrastructure, saying, “Two corps headquarters, three brigade headquarters, two ammunition depots, one logistics base, three battalion headquarters, two sector headquarters, and more than 80 tanks, artillery guns, and armored personnel carriers have been destroyed.”

The security forces dealt with unprovoked aggression by the Afghan Taliban along the Pakistan-Afghan border. The forces targeted Taliban positions in various sectors, destroying enemy posts and foiling quadcopter attacks on Pakistani check posts.