After a few hours of peace between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a fierce clash took place once again between Afghan Taliban and Pakistani soldiers in Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday night. Pakistan claimed that Afghan Taliban and ‘Fitna al-Khwariz’ opened unprovoked firing, in response to which the Pakistani army took strong action. Both sides damaged tanks and claimed to have captured the posts.
The clash took place soon after the statement of Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif, who had warned about the tense situation on the border. Pakistani sources claimed that many Taliban posts were heavily damaged in the Pakistani attack.
Pakistani sources confirmed that a Taliban tank was destroyed in the return fire, which led to the attackers fleeing their posts. According to defense sources, Pakistani forces are on high alert and are capable of securing the border. Pakistan also claimed to have destroyed another Afghan tank in another attack.
While the Afghanistan-backed ‘X’ handle ‘War Globe News’ has made a different claim. It has claimed that a video has been leaked showing Taliban drones dropping explosives on Pakistani military bases in the border areas of Pakhtunkhwa. Another video shows the Taliban dropping drones on Pakistani posts.
Another Afghanistan-backed handle, Afghanistan Defense, has said that Afghan soldiers have targeted places in Pakistan from which a threat to Afghanistan arises. Afghan forces will target all the bases of the Daesh (ISIS) group in Pakistan. Also, the Afghan Defense has claimed that 7 Pakistani soldiers have been killed in the attack that took place at night.
Afghanistan has officially demanded that Pakistan hand over the main leaders of ISIS-Khorasan (Daesh). The spokesman of the Islamic Emirate made this demand because Afghanistan claims that these leaders are living in Pakistan and are plotting attacks on Afghanistan from there. The leaders demanded include Shahab al-Muhajir, Abdul Hakim Tawhidi, Sultan Aziz and Salahuddin Rajab.
