Pakistan rejects Afghan Taliban's 'nefarious' claims of cross-border strikes
Key takeaways
- Terrorist camps including that of Daesh and more than two dozen other terrorists organisations are factually located, run and patronised from inside the territories under control of Afghan Taliban regime," it added
- The rebuttal comes after Kabul falsely claimed it had launched "airstrikes" on hideouts of outlawed Daesh in two Pakistani provinces.
- The Taliban government's defence ministry claimed in a post on X that hideouts in Balochistan and KP, both of which share a border with Afghanistan, had been targeted by the Afghan air force on Thursday night.
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Pakistan on Friday refuted claims by the Afghan Taliban regime regarding drone strikes on outlawed Daesh camps in border areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, saying security forces had shot down a rudimentary drone that intruded inside the country.
In a statement on its Fact Checker account on X, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said that the Afghan Taliban regime, through various propaganda mouthpieces and official statements, claimed to have targeted alleged Daesh camps in border areas of KP and Balochistan using rudimentary drones.