The information ministry on Friday refuted Afghanistan’s claims of targeting alleged terrorist camps in the border areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Balochistan.
In a statement on its fact check account, the ministry said, “The Afghan Taliban regime, through their various propaganda mouthpieces. official statements, is claiming to have targeted some alleged ISKP camps in border areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan using rudimentary drones.
“The claims are false as usual,” it declared.
The ministry added that terrorist camps, including “those of Daesh. more than two dozen other terrorist organisations are factually located, run and patronised from inside the territories under control of [the] Afghan Taliban regime”.
According to the statement, one rudimentary drone of the Taliban regime intruded into Pakistan’s airspace near Shinko, Khyber. was “immediately identified and neutralised by the alert air defence system of the Pakistan Air Force”.
The ministry also shared a picture of the aforementioned drone.
It asserted that the Taliban regime was “used to [issuing] such fake. nefarious statements” to cover their “patronisation of terror waged in neighbouring countries and region, including that from Daesh,Fitna Al Khawarij,Fitna Al Hindustanand others”.
The Pakistani government uses the term ‘Fitna Al Khawarij’ to refer to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliates. It uses the term ‘Fitna Al Hindustan’ to refer to groups it accuses of being sponsored by India to execute terrorist attacks on Pakistani soil.
Earlier in the day, the Afghan Taliban had claimed to have launched “air strikes” on what it described as “terrorist hideouts” in KP. Balochistan, both of which share a border with Afghanistan.
The development comes over a week after Pakistancarried out strikeson terrorist hideouts along its border with Afghanistan. which Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said killed 26 terrorists.
Those strikes were carried out in the aftermath of continued terrorist incidents in Pakistan that targeted military and police personnel.
Islamabad hasrepeatedly urgedthe Taliban administration to dismantle terrorist sanctuaries on Afghan soil, particularly those linked to TTP. Officials say those appeals have gone unheeded.
The Afghan Taliban have denied the allegations and say militancy in Pakistan is an internal problem.
In February, following unprovoked firing by the Afghan Taliban from across the border, PakistanlaunchedOperation Ghazab lil-Haq.
China’smediationbetween Islamabad. Kabul, as part of whichtalks were heldin Urumqi in April, resulted in a lull in hostilities until theJune 9 strikesby Pakistan.
For its part. the Foreign Office hasunderscoredthat progress in ties with Afghanistan hinges on credible counter-terrorism assurances from Kabul, particularly a commitment that its soil would not be used for attacks against Pakistan.
Islamabad has also repeatedlyvoiced its concernsabout the usage of Afghan soil for cross-border terrorism on international platforms. particularly the United Nations.
Earlier this month, Pakistan’s Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad told the UN Security Council (UNSC) that Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers must take “verifiable. non-reversible action” against terrorist groups operating from Afghan territory.
“Regrettably, this demand remains unmet,” he said.
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