Security forces repel Afghan Taliban attack in Kurram, destroy multiple border positions

• Security forces launch full-scale retaliatory response after unprovoked cross-border firing with heavy weapons and mortars

• Pakistani troops maintain complete control of border, forcing attackers to abandon several posts and flee

• Military remains on high alert, vows immediate and decisive response to any further provocation

• Officials say 796 terrorists and Afghan Taliban operatives killed, over 1,043 injured since Operation Ghazab lil-Haq began

 KURRAM: Pakistani security forces on Sunday launched a swift and full-scale retaliatory operation after what security sources described as unprovoked firing by the Afghan Taliban on border posts in Kurram, responding with precision strikes on multiple enemy positions while maintaining complete control of the border and forcing the attackers to abandon several posts.

According to security sources, the Afghan Taliban used heavy weapons, mortars and other arms to target Pakistani border posts. In response, Pakistani security forces immediately mounted a forceful counteroffensive, engaging Afghan Taliban border posts, mortar positions and defensive checkpoints with both light and heavy weapons, including artillery.

Security sources said Pakistani forces maintained complete control over the border areas throughout the exchange and inflicted significant damage on the attackers, forcing the Afghan Taliban to abandon multiple positions and flee.

They added that the border situation was being continuously monitored and that security forces remained fully alert and prepared to deliver an immediate and decisive response to any future act of aggression or provocation.

Security sources recalled that on the night of February 26, following unprovoked firing by the Afghan Taliban from across the border, Pakistan launched Operation Ghazab lil-Haq against terrorist hideouts.

They further noted that during the night of April 2/3, security forces foiled an attempt by the Afghan Taliban and terrorists to attack a border post in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Ghulam Khan Sector, killing 37 attackers and injuring more than 80 others.

Providing an update at the time, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar had said that 796 terrorists and Afghan Taliban operatives had been killed, while more than 1,043 had been injured since the launch of Operation Ghazab lil-Haq.

Later that month, security forces also destroyed gun positions used by the Afghan Taliban during unprovoked firing on civilians in South Waziristan, in which three people were injured, according to security sources.

On April 28, mortar shells fired from across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border struck Angoor Adda village in South Waziristan, injuring five civilians, including four children and a woman, security sources said.

Islamabad has repeatedly called on the Taliban administration in Kabul to dismantle terrorist sanctuaries on Afghan soil that, according to Pakistani officials, are being used to launch attacks inside Pakistan. Officials maintain that these repeated appeals have so far gone unheeded.