{"id":7978,"date":"2026-03-02T09:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/02\/paktika-border-clash-afghan-forces-destroy-pakistani-tank\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:29:23","slug":"paktika-border-clash-afghan-forces-destroy-pakistani-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/02\/paktika-border-clash-afghan-forces-destroy-pakistani-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Clash in Paktika; Afghan Forces Destroy Pakistani Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials report that Afghanistan&#8217;s defense forces targeted and destroyed a Pakistani armored tank along the Paktika province border before noon today.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hamdullah Fetrat, the incident occurred around 11:45 a.m. near the area beyond Angur Ada, located in Shkin district of Paktika province. He claimed that the tank had been firing &#8220;indiscriminate rounds&#8221; towards Afghan territory before being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Angur Ada is considered a sensitive border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan and has previously witnessed tensions and skirmishes. So far, Pakistani authorities have not responded to this claim.<\/p>\n<p>No further details have been provided regarding possible casualties or damages from the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan forces targeted and destroyed a Pakistani tank near Paktika&#8217;s border, amid ongoing tensions in the sensitive Angur Ada area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7978","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\/7978","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=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}