Pakistan’s Ministry of Information has dismissed as false the Taliban Ministry of Defense’s claims regarding the start of clashes following Pakistani army drone attacks in the Angur Ada border area of Paktika province. Pakistani officials stated that Taliban border forces initially attacked residential areas, resulting in several civilian casualties and injuries.<\/p>\n
According to Islamabad authorities, the Pakistani army responded to these attacks with heavy artillery, targeting seven Taliban posts and positions, inflicting significant damage on Taliban forces. These events and the conflicting narratives from both sides about the start of the clashes indicate rising border tensions between Pakistan and the Taliban administration along the Durand Line.<\/p>\n
The Angur Ada area, located on the border of Paktika province with Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is a sensitive zone and a border crossing point that has, in recent months, witnessed repeated exchanges of fire and mutual accusations. Relations between the Taliban administration and Pakistan have deteriorated to an unprecedented level of tension and mistrust due to Islamabad’s repeated allegations of Kabul’s support for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Pakistani army airstrikes on Afghan soil, and the absence of a clear security framework to manage the borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan denies Taliban’s claims of clashes in Paktika, reports Taliban attacks on civilian areas and responds with artillery strikes amid rising border tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960","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=24960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}