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The ongoing diplomatic and military tension between neighboring countries Pakistan and Afghanistan has now reached a very dangerous point. The ruling Taliban government of Afghanistan has made a very shocking and big claim, saying that its Air Force (Afghan Air Force) has penetrated inside the border of Pakistan and carried out a massive air strike on terrorist bases located in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. After this sensational claim, there has been a stir in the defense corridors of entire South Asia. However, on the other hand, Pakistan has completely rejected this claim and called it a fabricated lie and said that only one Afghan drone had violated its airspace, which was stopped in time.
Conspiracy was being hatched at the behest of intelligence agencies, Taliban issued official statement
Actually, this whole controversy started when Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry shared a post on its official ‘X’ (earlier Twitter) handle. In the post, the Defense Ministry claimed that Afghan Air Force fighter jets targeted terrorist camps in two restive provinces of Pakistan — Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — as part of an intelligence operation late on Thursday night. However, citing security reasons, the Defense Ministry did not clarify what type of aircraft or military technology was used to carry out this air attack.
According to the Afghan Defense Ministry, the Pakistan-based terrorist bases attacked were allegedly planning a series of major attacks against Afghan soil in collaboration with hostile foreign intelligence agencies. The Taliban government says that these bases have been the main launch pads for many deadly and suicide attacks in Afghanistan in the past. According to the Taliban, their air force has successfully destroyed all their pre-determined targets, although no exact figures have been released yet on known losses or casualties suffered by the militants in this attack.
Pakistan’s counterattack: ‘There was no attack, we drove away the Afghan drone’
A few hours after this big and aggressive claim of Afghanistan, Pakistan’s Information Ministry also took charge and completely rejected the Taliban’s claims. The Pakistani government hit back at ‘X’ and wrote that no air strike or air attack of any kind took place within Pakistani territory. The real reality is that only one unmanned drone from Afghanistan had illegally entered Pakistani airspace, which was immediately detected and effectively stopped and driven away by the Pakistani Air Force.
Using very strong words, the Pakistani Information Ministry said that such claims being made by Afghanistan are, as always, completely false and baseless. Pakistan instead blamed the Taliban regime, saying that in reality the terrorist camps are not flourishing in Pakistan but within the areas under the direct control of the Afghan Taliban regime itself and are being safely operated and supported from there. This new round of claims and counter-claims that has started between the two countries has once again taken the military activity and border tension on the Durand Line to its peak.
