Locals examine the location of a cross-border assault by the Pakistani military in Afghanistan’s jap Paktika province, on October 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP
Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir’s assertion got here amidst Pakistan launching recent air strikes concentrating on terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan late on Friday (October 17, 2025), hours after Islamabad and Kabul prolonged their two-day ceasefire that had briefly halted hostilities between the 2 sides.
Choose between “peace and chaos”, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) stated, referring to Afghanistan whereas addressing a commencement ceremony of passing out military cadets on the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) Kakul at Abbottabad in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The Taliban regime, he stated, ought to act decisively towards militants working from its soil for terrorist actions in Pakistan.
All proxies utilizing Afghan soil can be met with a response to “increase them to mud”, the COAS warned.
Friday’s (October 17, 2025) strikes by Pakistan adopted a gun-and-bomb assault by terrorists at a army set up in North Waziristan, claimed by the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The recent strikes got here amid representatives from the 2 nations being anticipated to fulfill in Doha, the place the Qatari authorities is about to make an effort for mediation.
Islamabad has constantly urged the Taliban authorities to forestall terrorist teams from utilizing Afghan territory for cross-border assaults. Kabul, nonetheless, denies these allegations, insisting that Afghan soil will not be getting used towards any neighbouring nation.
The scenario deteriorated between the 2 neighbours following repeated terrorist assaults by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), allegedly utilizing the Afghan soil, together with one within the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Orakzai district not too long ago, which claimed the lives of 11 army personnel, together with a Lt Colonel and a Major.
Published – October 18, 2025 04:23 pm IST
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