Pakistan denounces one soldier killed and eleven wounded in the attack “by Afghan forces” last Saturday

Military sources report eight Taliban killed in retaliation by Pakistani forces

Dec. 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least one Pakistani soldier has died and eleven others were injured as a result of an “unprovoked” attack carried out by “Afghan forces” against a border checkpoint, sources from the Pakistan Army have reported on condition of anonymity.

Sources tell the newspaper ‘Dawn’ that the Afghan forces attacked at least four positions – in Ghozgarhi, Matha Sangar, Kot Ragha and Tari Mengal, all in the municipality of Alto Kurram, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province – in an offensive which left between seven and eight Afghans dead.

These same sources also denounce that militiamen of the so-called “Pakistani Taliban” used positions of their Afghan co-religionists last Friday as a springboard to enter Pakistani territory, in an operation also repelled by Pakistani security forces.

The border tension reigning between both countries since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021 has reached a peak this week, after the Afghan fundamentalist movement reported more than 50 deaths due to Pakistani bombings in the Afghan province of Paktika. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Pakistani authorities have been very critical of the Taliban for what they consider to be inaction against TTP and its continued attacks in Pakistan, which is why they had threatened on several occasions to carry out cross-border operations if Kabul did not act harshly against the group. terrorist.

The TTP group, which differs from the Afghan Taliban in organizational matters but follows the same rigorous interpretation of Sunni Islam, brings together more than a dozen Islamist militant groups operating in Pakistan, where some 70,000 people have died in two decades of violence. .