Carried Out Airstrike On Pakistani Base In Balochistan, Says Taliban
Sediqullah Nasrat, deputy spokesperson for the Taliban Ministry of Defense, said Taliban forces carried out an airstrike early Thursday on the general headquarters of Frontier Corps in the Kuchlak area of Balochistan Province.
In a video message, Nasrat said Taliban forces had targeted 12 Pakistani military posts and bases over the past 24 hours. He claimed that 41 Pakistani troops were killed and 53 others wounded in the attacks.
Nasrat also alleged that Pakistani airstrikes in Khost Province targeted civilian homes and non-combatants, leaving several people killed and wounded.
Earlier, sources told Afghanistan International that Pakistani fighter jets struck a Taliban army corps in Kandahar Province on Wednesday evening. According to the sources, the strike targeted the headquarters of a special unit of the 205 Al-Badr Corps.
Meanwhile, Attaullah Tarar, Pakistan’s minister for information and broadcasting, said on Wednesday that at least 481 Taliban fighters had been killed and about 700 wounded in recent Pakistani attacks.
