Islamabad claims three terrorists killed at Pakistan-Afghanistan border

Pakistani forces detected the movement of three terrorists attempting to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Dir district on Sunday night, Pakistan military’s media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said.

According to a statement issued by ISPR, the alleged terrorists were surrounded and an intense gun fight ensued.

“All three terrorists were sent to hell,” the ISPR stated on Monday.

Pakistan has consistently urged the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) government to ensure militant groups do not launch attacks against Pakistan from Afghanistan.

The IEA has however repeatedly said this will not happen.

“Security forces of Pakistan are determined and remain committed to securing our borders and eliminating the menace of terrorism from the country,” the ISPR statement added.

Last week, Pakistan’s foreign ministry summoned the head of the Afghan embassy in the country after a militant attack on a military facility in Bannu, which Islamabad claims was carried out by Afghans.

Following this meeting, Pakistan accused the IEA of knowing the whereabouts of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other militant groups in the country and called on Kabul to take immediate and “concrete action against them”.

“Pakistan has been engaged in several conversations with the Afghan authorities in the last several months, where we have been exchanging intelligence and information, concrete evidence of individuals and groups responsible for terror attacks inside Pakistan,” the Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told reporters at a weekly briefing.

The IEA has also continued to deny the existence of TTP militants in Afghanistan.

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