Pakistan’s Interior Minister Attaullah Tarar has stated that Pakistan’s recent counter-terrorism operations inside Afghanistan have inflicted significant losses on Taliban forces.
In a statement shared on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) regarding Operation Ghazab al-Haq, the minister claimed that Pakistani precision strikes have so far resulted in the deaths of 415 Afghan Taliban fighters, with another 580 reportedly injured.
According to the official statement, the operation targeted militant infrastructure across multiple border regions inside Afghanistan. Pakistani forces reportedly destroyed 182 Taliban checkpoints and gained control of 31 others during the offensive.
The statement further claimed the destruction of 115 military assets belonging to Taliban forces, including tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery systems.
The air and ground-supported strikes were carried out against 46 locations inside Afghan territory, which Pakistani officials described as militant operational clusters.
Security analysts note that such operations typically aim to disrupt command-and-control networks, logistics corridors and staging areas used by insurgent groups. However, independent verification of casualty figures from conflict zones remains difficult due to restricted access and the fluid nature of battlefield reporting.
Pakistan has maintained that the strikes were conducted in response to militant threats originating from across the border and were designed to degrade operational capabilities rather than escalate broader regional conflict.
The Afghan side has not yet issued detailed battlefield casualty confirmation regarding the claims.
