{"id":3460,"date":"2026-10-28T23:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2026-10-28T23:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:03:44","slug":"pakistan-rejects-afghan-taliban-account-of-angoor-adda-border-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan rejects Afghan Taliban account of Angoor Adda border incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has rejected the Afghan Taliban\u2019s statement on the Angoor Adda border incident in South Waziristan, calling it false and fabricated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a fact-check issued on Wednesday, the ministry said Afghan Taliban forces fired on unarmed civilians on the Pakistani side and shelled the area with mortars without provocation.<\/p>\n<p>In its post on X, the ministry said: \u201ctheir cowardly forces initiated unprovoked fire and mortar shelling on unarmed civilians on Pakistani side\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Security sources said a mortar shell fired from the Afghan side hit a house in a populated area on October 27. One civilian was killed, and five members of one family were injured. Residents were left worried by the incident.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full sm:w-full  media--center  media--embed  media--uneven media--tweet\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FactCheckerMoIB\/status\/2115460594321264651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2115460594321264651%7Ctwgr%5E11db937368996488055b24953722d4be3327eb16%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aaj.tv%2Fnews%2F30523267\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--twitter  \"><span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FactCheckerMoIB\/status\/2115460594321264651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2115460594321264651%7Ctwgr%5E11db937368996488055b24953722d4be3327eb16%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aaj.tv%2Fnews%2F30523267\"><\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The ministry said Pakistani security forces replied at once. It said the \u201cimmediate, effective and disproportionate response\u201d silenced the Taliban\u2019s guns and destroyed seven of their posts.<\/p>\n<p>It said the Taliban also suffered heavy human and material losses. Security sources said the forces hit several Afghan check posts in the response.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also dismissed the statements of the Taliban\u2019s official spokespersons as baseless. It accused the Taliban of using false information to mislead their own people. It alleged the Taliban\u2019s action follows a pattern set by India and its proxies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has rejected the Afghan Taliban\u2019s statement on the Angoor Adda border incident in South Waziristan, calling it false and fabricated. In a fact-check issued on Wednesday, the ministry said Afghan Taliban forces fired on unarmed civilians on the Pakistani side and shelled the area with mortars without provocation. In its post on X, the ministry said: \u201ctheir cowardly forces initiated unprovoked fire and mortar shelling on unarmed civilians on Pakistani side\u201d. Security sources said a mortar shell fired from the Afghan side hit a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}