ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB) on Wednesday dismissed the Afghan Taliban regime’s claims regarding the Angoor Adda border incident, saying Afghan forces initiated unprovoked firing and mortar shelling on civilians on the Pakistani side.
The ministry’s statement came after the Afghan Ministry of Defence claimed that “Pakistani military personnel without any provocation or justification launched drones against the Angoor Adda Bazaar (market) and the Commissioner Office in Paktika province.”
Dismissing the claims, the ministry’s fact-checker account said that the Afghan Taliban regime’s latest fabrication of lies on the Angoor Adda border incident again confirms their “deceitful character”.
“The fact of the matter is that their cowardly forces initiated unprovoked fire and mortar shelling on unarmed civilians on the Pakistani side, following the pattern and instructions of their proxy masters India,” the ministry said.
It noted that Pakistan’s security forces had inflicted heavy casualties on their personnel in retaliation and destroyed seven Afghan Taliban posts.
“Immediate, effective and disproportionate response by our brave and proud security forces not only silenced their guns but inflicted heavy casualties on their men, in addition to material losses including destruction of seven posts,” it added.
The ministry said that “such lies of the Taliban regime’s so-called official spokespersons carry no value”.
It added that Afghan Taliban claims are part of a litany of “fabricated stories that they keep on telling”, mostly to their own people suffering under their imposed and non-representative regime.
The unprovoked firing by Afghan Taliban forces in South Waziristan left one civilian martyred and five members of the same family injured after a mortar shell struck the area, security sources said.
Sources had further claimed that armed forces destroyed multiple Afghan Taliban checkposts in a retaliatory operation after an unprovoked attack from across the border.
