In response to Pakistan's attack on Paktika, Afghanistan's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva Nasir Andisha said that Islamabad has resorted to "coercive diplomacy" towards the Taliban.
Nasir Ahmad Andisha added that the Taliban government does not have the ability or authority to take direct revenge against Pakistan.
On Tuesday evening, December 24, the Pakistani army attacked the “centres of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Barmal District, Paktika Province”. The Taliban confirmed the incident and said that it would respond to the attack.
Media close to the Pakistani military reported that a number of militants were killed and four of their operational centres were destroyed in the targeted attacks.
In a sharp reaction to the overnight attack by Pakistani warplanes on Barmal Paktika, the Taliban's Ministry of Defence said that it "will not leave the attack unanswered, and considers it its inalienable right to defend its territory".
Afghanistan's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva wrote in a note on social media platform X that when Pakistan follows the first visit of a newly appointed special envoy to Kabul with an airstrike, it is called "coercive diplomacy”.
Nasir Ahmad Andisha added that the attack may have sent a message to Kandahar after the assassination of Khalil Haqqani, the Taliban's minister of refugees.
