A safety personnel stands guard on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman on December 6, 2025, following in a single day cross-border hearth between the 2 international locations.
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Pakistan has issued a demarche to Afghanistan’s Taliban regime over the alleged use of Afghan soil for a latest terrorist assault that claimed the lives of 11 troopers, the Overseas Workplace mentioned on Thursday (February 19, 2026).
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Eleven troopers and one civilian had been killed when terrorists rammed an explosive-laden automobile right into a safety test submit in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur space on Monday (February 16).
Based on a press launch by the Overseas Workplace, the demarche was issued on Wednesday (February 18) afternoon, when the Afghan deputy head of mission was summoned to the Ministry of Overseas Affairs.
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“Pakistan condemned within the strongest attainable phrases the vehicle-borne suicide terrorist assault adopted by a fireplace raid on Pakistan navy and legislation enforcement businesses’ posts in Bajaur, carried out by Fitna al Khawarij (or) the TTP,” it mentioned.
The time period Fitna al Khawarij is used for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The Overseas Workplace expressed concern that the group, whose whole management is predicated in Afghanistan, “operates with impunity from Afghan soil”.
It re-emphasised that Pakistan had acquired repeated assurances from the Afghan Taliban regime, “however, regrettably, with no seen or concrete actions”.
“The Afghan Taliban regime has been instructed to take instant, concrete and verifiable measures towards all terror teams working from its territory, together with their management,” it mentioned.
The Ministry additionally “categorically knowledgeable” the Afghan Taliban that Pakistan “reserved the correct to reply and eradicate any khawarij belonging to the group in addition to their associates”, wherever they had been positioned, “to make sure [the] security of its troopers, civilians and territorial boundaries”.
Pakistan typically blames the Afghan authorities for its failure to cease terrorists from utilizing its soil for assaults throughout the border into Pakistan.
Nonetheless, the Kabul administration refutes such allegations and as a substitute has careworn that Pakistan ought to management its safety affairs.
Printed – February 19, 2026 08:59 pm IST