Pakistan has conducted precision aerial and drone strikes on ten locations across Afghanistan in response to recent attempted drone attacks from the neighbouring country a day earlier, Information Minister Atauallah Tarar said on Thursday (September 24, 2026).
Mr. Pakistan calls upon the Afghan Taliban regime to immediately cease all hostile activity against Pakistan and fulfil its international obligations by taking effective, concrete, verifiable, and sustained action against terrorist entities operating from Afghan soil , the statement by the Minister read.
Tarar said that the strikes were “deliberate, precise, calibrated, and proportionate, and strictly limited to identified military objectives directly linked to the attempted attacks against Pakistan”. The development comes a day after Pakistan shot down eight drones after they entered the country’s airspace from Afghanistan, security sources said. “In exercise of its sovereign right to self-defence, Pakistan conducted precision aerial and drone strikes against 10 locations in Afghanistan used for launching and storing these drones,” Mr. Tarar said in a statement. He also said that Pakistan condemns in the strongest possible terms the deliberate and unlawful incursion into Pakistan by drones on September 23, launched from Afghan territory, which “constitutes a blatant violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and is a grave and unacceptable act of aggression”. The Minister said that Pakistan for years has repeatedly conveyed its grave concerns to the Afghan Taliban regime and its interlocutors regarding the continued presence of terrorist sanctuaries and their support networks on Afghan soil.
“Pakistan will defend its sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the lives of its citizens with full resolve and will take all necessary measures to protect them.
Any further provocative act by Afghan Taliban will be responded with firm and resolute response,” he said.
