During the operation, 219 tanks, armored vehicles and artillery pieces were destroyed.
A Pakistani army soldier stands guard at a border terminal in Ghulam Khan, a town in North Waziristan, on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Photo: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Wednesday that at least 641 Afghan Taliban operatives have been killed and more than 855 wounded during the ongoing Operation Ghazab lil Haq, launched in response to what Islamabad described as “unprovoked action” from across the Afghan border.
The operation was launched last month following fresh clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, after Afghan Taliban forces fired at multiple locations, prompting swift military retaliation by Pakistan.
In an update shared on his official X account, Tarar said security forces had inflicted heavy losses on terrorist positions across the border during the operation.
According to the minister, 243 checkpoints used by the Afghan Taliban have so far been destroyed, while another 42 were captured and later destroyed by Pakistani forces.
A total of 219 tanks, armored vehicles and artillery guns were destroyed during the course of the operation, Tarar added.
He further claimed that Pakistani forces carried out air operations targeting multiple terrorist sites across Afghanistan.
“Sixty-five locations across Afghanistan were effectively attacked from the air,” Tarar said.
