Let us say that the resolve of the armed forces for the defense of the country remains unwavering as ‘Operation Ghazab Lil Haq’ continues.
Pakistan’s military responded on Tuesday to unprovoked aggression by the Afghan Taliban and Fitna al-Khawarij along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, security sources said. Fitna al-Khawarij is a term the state uses to refer to terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
According to security sources, Operation Ghazab Lil Haq operations against the unprovoked aggression of the Afghan Taliban continue.
“Pakistan Army, in Chaman sector, effectively attacked and destroyed multiple posts of Afghan Taliban,” the sources said. “Afghan Taliban positions in Sarshan, Al-Marjan, Edhi Post, a vehicle and other facilities were also successfully attacked,” they added.
Security sources also said that the resolve of the armed forces for the defense of the country remains unwavering, adding that the designs of the terrorists and their enablers would be thwarted. They further stated that Operation Ghazab Lil Haq would continue until all assigned objectives were achieved.
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On April 15, three civilians, including two children, were martyred and three others injured when Afghan Taliban forces carried out unprovoked shelling on local residents in a border area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district, according to state media.
The incident marked a new episode of cross-border aggression after a gap of more than a month, following Operation Ghazab Lil Haq, launched in response to earlier unprovoked hostility from the Afghan side.
Operation Ghazab Lil Haq was launched in late February following fresh clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, after Afghan Taliban forces fired at multiple locations, prompting swift military retaliation by Pakistan.
Since then, neighboring countries have intensified hostilities along the border. Clashes intensified after Afghanistan launched a border offensive in response to Pakistani airstrikes on terrorist positions and subsided during a temporary ceasefire on the occasion of Eidul Fitr.
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The escalation of tensions between the two countries followed a series of tit-for-tat actions over the past year.
Earlier, Pakistan carried out airstrikes against TTP camps and the Islamic State’s Khorasan province inside Afghanistan after a wave of attacks in Pakistan, including a suicide bombing in Islamabad.
Islamabad has long maintained that TTP leaders operate from Afghan territory, a charge Kabul has repeatedly denied.
Tensions also rose after a series of explosions in Kabul on October 9 last year. Taliban forces subsequently attacked areas along the border with Pakistan, prompting Islamabad to respond with cross-border bombings.
The exchanges caused casualties and damage to infrastructure on both sides and led to the suspension of trade after the closure of border crossings on October 12, 2025.
