{"id":42386,"date":"2026-03-02T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42386"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:04:26","slug":"435-afghan-combatants-killed-188-tanks-and-vehicles-destroyed-in-operation-ghazab-lil-haq-tarar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42386","title":{"rendered":"435 Afghan combatants killed, 188 tanks and vehicles destroyed in Operation Ghazab Lil Haq: Tarar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Monday that Pakistani security forces killed 435 Afghan Taliban combatants and destroyed 188 tanks and vehicles during Operation Ghazab Lil Haq, launched in response to \u201cunprovoked action\u201d from across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing a summary of the Afghan Taliban regime\u2019s losses at 3pm, Tarar said that more than 630 Afghan operatives were injured. He added that 188 tanks and armoured vehicles were destroyed during the operation, 31 Afghan posts were captured and 51 locations across Afghanistan were successfully targeted in air strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Tarar described the operation as a decisive response to aggression, underscoring the scale of losses inflicted on the Afghan Taliban regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705Operation Ghazb lil Haq<br \/>\n\u2705Update 1500 hours 2 March<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Summary of Afghan Taliban losses<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0f435 Killed,<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0f630 + Injured<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0f188 Check posts destroyed<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0f31 Posts captured,<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0f188 tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery guns destroyed<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0f51 locations across Afghanistan effectively\u2026<br \/>\n\u2014 Attaullah Tarar (@TararAttaullah) March 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The latest escalation in tensions between the two countries follows a series of tit-for-tat actions over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan earlier carried out air strikes targeting camps of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State Khorasan Province inside Afghanistan after a wave of attacks in Pakistan, including a suicide bombing in Islamabad. Pakistani security sources said more than 80 terrorists were killed in those strikes. The strikes prompted attacks by Afghanistan along the border, leading to the breakout of the latest round of open conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad has long maintained that TTP leaders operate from Afghan territory, an allegation that Kabul has repeatedly denied.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions also surged after a series of explosions in Kabul on October 9 last year. Taliban forces subsequently targeted areas along Pakistan\u2019s border, prompting Islamabad to respond with cross-border shelling. The exchanges caused casualties and infrastructure damage on both sides and led to the suspension of trade after border crossings were closed on October 12, 2025.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Monday that Pakistani security forces killed 435 Afghan Taliban combatants and destroyed 188 tanks and vehicles during Operation Ghazab Lil Haq, launched in response to \u201cunprovoked action\u201d from across the border. Sharing a summary of the Afghan Taliban regime\u2019s losses at 3pm, Tarar said that more than 630 Afghan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42386","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=42386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}