Kabul/Islamabad, Feb 27 : Amidst rising confrontation, Afghanistan claimed to have carried aerial strikes inside Pakistan today, targeting military installations, including in Abbottabad.
According to the Afghan Ministry of Defence, the aerial operation was conducted successfully, hitting key military centers, facilities, and installations belonging to Pakistan’s military regime.
“Afghan Air Force carried out airstrikes today (Friday) at around 11:00 a.m. on a military camp near the city of Faisalabad in Islamabad, the Army cantonment in Nowshera, the military township of Jamrud, and also in Abbottabad,” said a statement issued by the Ministry of Defense of the Taliban regime.
The Ministry statement added that the strikes were carried out in response to Pakistani military air “incursions” that took place last night in Kabul, Kandahar, and Paktia.
Though the Taliban regime did not specify, the aerial strikes were carried out apparently using the drones, since Afghanistan does not have fighter planes.
The Pakistan government confirmed this as its officials claimed that drones from Afghanistan were shot down.
Meanwhile, Fasihuddin Fitrat, Chief of Army Staff of the Taliban regime, sent out a tough warning to Pakistan, saying if any country “violates” any part of Afghanistan’s territory, it will receive an even stronger and more decisive response.
He asserted that the Taliban regime would not leave any aggression unanswered.
“If Pakistan’s military regime attempts to destabilize Afghanistan, they would not remain safe even in Islamabad or other major centers of that country,” the top military official of the Taliban regime warned.
Fitrat stressed that Afghanistan’s defense forces have the capability to defend the country’s territorial integrity.
Afghan forces launched massive cross-border attacks on Pakistani military at multiple places along with Durand Line last night, in retalation to the airstrikes inside Afghanistan four days earlier.
The Taliban regime claimed to have killed over 55 Pakistani soldiers, captured several others, besides seizing or destroying dozens of military installations, including a major Headquarters.
Soon, after Pakistani military carried out fresh air strikes at several places in Afghanistan, including Kabul and Kandahar.
The latest flare up in military tensions came began after Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Nangarhar and Paktika provinces of Afghanistan during the night of February 21 and 22, killing dozens of innocent civilians, including children and women.
An outraged Taliban regime vowed to avenge the brutal and criminal act of Pakistan, which it did last night.
