ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Thursday that it carried out targeted airstrikes in Afghanistan to ensure the safety of its citizens and to prevent imminent terrorist attacks from across the neighbouring country.
Tahir Andrabi, the spokesperson for the Foreign Office, said this during his weekly briefing. He stated that Pakistani forces targeted terrorist camps and hideouts in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar and Paktika provinces.
Following the strikes, Pakistan’s Information and Broadcasting Minister said that “more than 80” terrorists had been killed.
Andrabi reiterated that the intelligence-based selective targeting of these seven terrorist camps and hideouts in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region was primarily aimed at ensuring the safety and security of Pakistani citizens and preventing imminent terrorist attacks against Pakistan, particularly against our law enforcement officials and our civilians living near the border regions.
He emphasized that the strikes were “proportional, based on careful planning with necessary due diligence and were directed solely against identified terrorist camps and hideouts, saying, “Pakistan exercised utmost caution to prevent any harm to Afghan civilians.”
He recalled statements made by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in reaction to terrorist attacks against Pakistan, with the latest being about the February 6 attack on an Ïmambargah in Islamabad.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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