The Pakistan Army responded to unprovoked firing by the Afghan Taliban in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Upper Kurram and Ghozgarhi, with several Taliban personnel reportedly killed in the retaliatory action, state media reported on Saturday.
The army targeted the Afghan Taliban’s Topsar post and Shipola base camp in the Upper Kurram sector with artillery fire, according to security sources. The Shipola base camp was reportedly destroyed.
Several Afghan Taliban personnel were reported killed during the retaliatory action along the Ghozgarhi border. In contrast, Taliban personnel abandoned a border post following the Pakistani response, the sources said, adding that an exchange of fire was continuing in the area.
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Later, following another incident of unprovoked firing by the Afghan Taliban in the Kurram sector along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the Pakistan Army responded with heavy weapons.
The sources said that the Afghan Taliban regime was assisting militants. Several Taliban posts were destroyed in the subsequent retaliatory action, while personnel fled their positions, they added.
The Pakistan Army remained alert and committed to defending the country’s borders and safeguarding national security, the security sources said.
Pakistan has repeatedly accused terrorist groups based in Afghanistan of carrying out attacks inside the country and demanded that Kabul take action against them. The Afghan Taliban government has rejected accusations that it allows its territory to be used for attacks against Pakistan.
Islamabad maintains that the terrorist nexus extended beyond the movement of terrorists across the border to their training, arming and operational support.
In 2026 alone, terrorism emanating from Afghan soil claimed the lives of 1,327 Pakistanis and injured another 2,484, according to figures cited by Pakistani authorities.
Officials said that whenever Pakistani forces targeted terrorist hideouts, the Taliban regime instead moved to defend the militants and their sanctuaries rather than dismantling the infrastructure. The issue, Pakistan has argued, was not confined to TTP.
UN assessments have continued to document the presence of several other militant organisations in Afghanistan, including al Qaeda, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and Islamic State-Khorasan, reinforcing concerns about the broader militant ecosystem operating from Afghan territory.
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Pakistani officials say the continued presence of these groups, combined with training facilities, cross-border infiltration and access to sophisticated weapons, demonstrates that Afghanistan remains an important base for terrorist activity affecting Pakistan.
Pakistan's position, according to officials, remains that Kabul must take concrete steps to dismantle terrorist sanctuaries, eliminate training infrastructure, prevent cross-border infiltration and ensure that Afghan territory is not used for attacks against Pakistan.
The government has maintained that the issue was fundamentally one of Pakistan's national security and that continued attacks from Afghan soil cannot be addressed through denials alone.
Pakistan says it expected the Taliban regime to fulfil its commitments by taking verifiable action against terrorist groups operating from its territory rather than defending or denying their presence.
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