Pakistani Military Claims To Have Killed Dozens Of Afghan Militants

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar made an announcement on Sunday that security forces conducted a ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, which was followed by air strikes against militant hideouts and safe havens, killing 29 fighters.

He added that the operation was launched in reaction to several Afghan militant strikes that were taking place throughout Pakistan, most notably at the Ragers Camp in Karachi. Several Rangers officers were killed in this attack.

Militant attacks against the police and security forces in Pakistan have escalated in recent years.

The majority of this violence has been attributed by authorities to the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), as well as other terrorist factions from Afghanistan.

Afghan terrorists recently assaulted the Rangers' headquarters in Karachi, killing four paramilitary forces.

Following a swift response to the attack, Rangers personnel eliminated three of the assailants and detained another, whom the military acknowledged as an injured Afghan national.

The attack in Karachi was attributed to Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction that split from the Pakistani Taliban.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media arm of the Pakistan Army, declared in a post on X on Sunday, June 28, that the attack on the Rangers camp was carried out by the organization known as "Jamaat ul Ahrar."

According to the statement from the army, one of the detained terrorists, who was injured, had entered Pakistan via the Afghan border.

Pakistan has consistently mentioned that a significant number of terrorists and unlawful miscreants involved in terrorist acts enter the country from Afghanistan.