PAKISTANI security forces have killed 352 Afghan Taliban personnel and their allied terrorist groups in the ongoing air and ground attacks, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Saturday. The Minister said that the Pakistani forces completely destroyed 130 military posts, while they captured another 26 border posts. Providing an update at 9 pm (local time) on the losses of the Afghan Taliban, Tarar said so far 352 Taliban personnel have been killed and another 535 injured. Tarar also said that 171 tanks and armoured vehicles have been destroyed, adding that Pakistan also hit 41 locations “with precision air strikes”.

 

Pakistan launched a massive retaliatory attack code-named Operation Ghazab lil Haq, after the Afghan side simultaneously attacked 53 locations along the more than 2,600 km-long border. Addressing media on Friday evening, the army spokesperson, Lt Gen Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry, said that the Afghan Taliban should choose between Pakistan and the terrorist organisations. “I want to make one thing clear: the oppressive Afghan Taliban regime has to make a clear choice.

 

The choice is to choose between Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Baloch Liberation Army, Daesh, Al Qaeda, the terrorists and terrorist organisations and Pakistan,” he said. “They have to make this choice. It has been made clear by the government of Pakistan. It is not something new I am saying...They have to make this choice. Whether they choose terrorists and terrorism or Pakistan. We are clear... Let it be known that our choice is absolutely clear. It will always be Pakistan over everything.”