{"id":22514,"date":"2026-09-23T14:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/taliban-denies-drone-attack-on-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:45:17","slug":"taliban-denies-drone-attack-on-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/taliban-denies-drone-attack-on-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Administration Denies Carrying Out Drone Attack on Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports in Pakistani media that drone attacks had been thwarted, the Taliban administration has denied carrying out any air attack on Pakistan and said it would decide for itself the timing and manner of any response.<\/p>\n<p>Tolonews reported that the Taliban administration&#8217;s air force did not carry out a drone attack on Pakistan. The statement came after some Pakistani media outlets claimed that drone attacks by the Taliban administration near Torkham and in Kohat had been intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>The tension escalated after air strikes by the Pakistani army on Kunar and Paktika. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban administration spokesman, had previously said in response to those strikes that Afghans would give an appropriate response to the incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Torkham is one of the important border crossings between Afghanistan and Pakistan, while Kohat is located in Pakistan&#8217;s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province; both areas have long been in focus amid border and security tensions between the two sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials deny launching drone attacks on Pakistan after Pakistani media reported attacks were thwarted near Torkham and in Kohat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}