Information ministry rejects Taliban claims of drone strikes in KP, Balochistan

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has refuted the statement and claims of the Afghan Taliban regime about targeting Daesh in border areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, using rudimentary drones.

In a statement, the information ministry termed these claims as false as usual.

The statement further said that Afghan Taliban regime through their various propaganda mouthpieces and official statements are claiming to have targeted some alleged Daesh Khorasan Province in border areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, using rudimentary drones.

The information ministry said terrorist camps including that of Daesh and more than two dozen other terrorists organizations are factually located, run and patronised from inside the territories under control of Afghan Taliban regime. And to cover their patronization of terror waged in neighbouring countries and region, including that from Daesh, Fitna al-Khawarij, Fitna al-Hindustan and others, the Taliban regime is used to issue such fake and nefarious statements.

The information minister further said that, in fact, one rudimentary drone of Taliban regime intruded inside Pakistan airspace near Shinko area of Khyber. It was immediately identified and neutralized by the alert Air defence system of Pakistan Air Force.

Afghan Taliban’s defence ministry claimed on Friday that Afghan forces ‌launched “air strikes” on hideouts of terrorists in two provinces of Pakistan.

The hideouts in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, both of which share ​a border with Afghanistan, were targeted by the “air force” on Thursday night, the ⁠ministry claimed in a post on X. It did not specify how the attack was carried out.