Pakistan Army Claims Destruction of Taliban Border Posts

DID Press: Pakistani officials said the country’s army destroyed several Afghan forces’ border posts on Tuesday night in response to what they described as an attack by the Taliban government on civilian areas in the Angoor Adda area of South Waziristan.

According to Pakistani officials, five members of a family were injured and another civilian was killed after a projectile struck a residential house in Angoor Adda.

Several shops were also reportedly damaged during the incident.Samar Haroon Bilour, an information adviser to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government, said in a post on X, citing Pakistani security sources, that Afghan Taliban forces had targeted residential areas, resulting in a projectile striking a house in a civilian neighbourhood.Bilour added that the Pakistani army had carried out a retaliatory operation in response to the alleged attack.

He said several Afghan forces’ border posts had been destroyed during the operation.Pakistani officials said their forces remained on high alert along the border and were fully prepared to respond to any potential attacks. They added that Pakistan’s military response to the incident was continuing.