Pakistan says ‘patience running out’ with Taliban admin. in Afghanistan after militant attacks

The Pakistani military has issued a warning that Islamabad's patience is wearing thin with the Taliban administration in neighboring Afghanistan, citing an escalation in militant attacks along the porous border.

“Afghanistan is being used as a base of operations against Pakistan, and there is proof and evidence of that,” Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said during a press briefing on Friday.

“The necessary measures that should be taken to protect the lives and property of the people of Pakistan will be taken and will continue to be taken,” he said. 

The remarks came after Pakistani security officials said that at least eleven more Pakistani soldiers were killed on Friday in a clash with militants in the Tirah area close to the Afghan border.

Meanwhile, the Taliban government accused Pakistan of carrying out airstrikes on its territory and threatened it with "consequences". 

Two powerful explosions rocked central Kabul late Thursday evening, sparking widespread speculation of a targeted Pakistani airstrike against a high-profile militant leader.

Afghan Taliban officials initially downplayed the incident, reporting no casualties or damage, while regional sources claimed the strikes may have eliminated Noor Wali Mehsud, the elusive chief of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a group long accused by Islamabad of orchestrating attacks across the border.

Mehsud, a Pakistani national who assumed TTP leadership in 2018, has been implicated in numerous attacks on Pakistani security forces.

Mehsud has had a close relationship with the Afghan Taliban, which inspired the establishment of the TTP.

Asked at the news conference on Friday if the Pakistani military had attacked Afghanistan to assassinate TTP leaders, the country’s army spokesman did not either confirm or deny the accusation.

General Sharif, however, vowed to do whatever was necessary to take action against militants operating across the border with Afghanistan.

The incident came amid plummeting relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which has accused the Taliban government – in power since August 2021 – of providing a haven to armed groups, particularly the TTP, which Islamabad blames for a surge in attacks on its security forces.

Pakistan: Taliban resorted to ‘indiscriminate firing’ on tense border

Islamabad said “unprovoked and indiscriminate firing” by Afghan Taliban forces led to the closure of a crucial trade route.

Before the Friday attack, an intelligence-based operation in Pakistan's Orakzai district on October 7-8, 2025, escalated into a firefight, killing 11 soldiers, including Lieutenant Colonel Junaid Arif and Major Tayyab Rahat.

A string of militant attacks has killed dozens of soldiers, mostly in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which shares a long and porous border with Afghanistan.

The Pakistani military on Friday said it killed more than 30 militants involved in a recent attack in the tribal district of Orakzai.

Pakistan also accuses regional adversary India of supporting the TTP through Afghanistan. India denies such accusations.

Militants kill six Pakistani soldiers near Afghan border

The 2021 Afghan Taliban takeover has emboldened the Pakistani Taliban.

The developments also coincided with the arrival on Thursday of the Taliban administration’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, in India for a six-day visit, the first such trip since the Taliban’s return to power.

His trip resulted in an announcement by India on Friday that it would upgrade ties with the Taliban administration by reopening its embassy in Kabul, shut since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

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