Overview
- Pakistan’s air-defence systems shot down eight drones that Islamabad says were launched from Afghanistan, with wreckage recovered by security forces.
- Hours after the interceptions, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said Pakistan carried out precision air and drone strikes on 10 Afghan locations it linked to the drone launches in exercise of self-defence.
- Pakistani forces also say they foiled an attempted militant infiltration from Afghan posts in Nangarhar and Paktia into the Kurram sector and exchanged fire with Afghan Taliban positions, a claim Kabul denies.
- Afghan authorities and the UN previously reported civilian deaths and injuries from earlier Pakistani strikes, creating conflicting casualty accounts that independent reporters cannot fully verify.
- The incidents have intensified diplomatic strain on China, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to contain the confrontation and have raised the risk of further cross-border violence that threatens civilian safety along the frontier.