More details on widespread Taliban attacks along Durand Line

DID Press: Taliban’s Ministry of Defense has announced that in the past 24 hours, in response to Pakistani attacks, Afghan defense forces carried out extensive operations along the Durand Line. These operations were conducted in the provinces of Kandahar, Nangarhar, Kunar, Nuristan, Khost, Paktia, and Paktika, and according to the ministry, “effective strikes” were inflicted on Pakistani forces.

According to this report, this morning around 8 o’clock, the Taliban government’s air force targeted the main headquarters of Pakistan’s border forces (FC) in the Kachlagh area of Balochistan, also known as “Ghazaband.” In this attack, the command office and the residence of the forces were hit, and according to the Ministry of Defense, dozens of Pakistani soldiers were killed or injured, and buildings were seriously damaged.

Based on the details announced from the results of this operation, 12 posts and Pakistani forces’ bases have been destroyed, 41 Pakistani soldiers have been killed, and 53 wounded. Additionally, 3 reconnaissance aircraft and drones belonging to Pakistan have been shot down.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense of the Taliban government has called Pakistan’s claims about heavy Afghan casualties “completely false and propagandistic” and emphasized that Afghan casualties have been very limited; according to the claim of the Taliban Ministry of Defense, 3 soldiers were killed and 7 others wounded.

However, the Taliban Ministry of Defense stated that Pakistan’s indiscriminate air and missile attacks have caused the death and injury of a number of civilians, the destruction of residential homes, and the displacement of thousands of people in border areas.