2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes
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The 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes were a series of armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between Afghanistan, its allied insurgents and Pakistan, at many locations along the Durand line, including North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Wana, Dera Ismail Khan, Shangla, Khost, and Paktika.[5] Subsequent attacks were also launched in Turbat and Gwadar in Balochistan province, by the Balochistan Liberation Army. Militant attacks on CPEC and Pakistani military bases accommodating US aircraft pose a threat to Chinese and American interests in Pakistan.[6][7][8]
2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes | |||||||
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Part of Afghanistan-Pakistan skirmishes – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Insurgency in Balochistan | |||||||
The international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
BLA (alleged)[4] | Pakistan | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Hibatullah Akhundzada Bashir Zeb |
Asif Ali Zardari Shehbaz Sharif General Asim Munir Zaheer Ahmad Babar Adm. Naveed Ashraf | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Pakistani Taliban militants
BLA militants
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
Total: 41-62 Pakistani airstrikes: 11 TTP militants killed (Pakistani claim) 10 TTP militants injured (Pakistani claim) Border clashes: 1 Afghan army soldier killed Subsequent militant attacks: 14 BLA militants killed 26 TTP-affiliated militants killed |
Total: 20 Border clashes: 1 Pakistani soldier killed 2 Pakistani soldiers injured Subsequent militant attacks: 8 Pakistani soldiers killed 7 Pakistani policemen killed 3 Pakistani soldiers wounded 6 Policemen wounded | ||||||
Border clashes: 8 Afghan civilians killed (Afghan claim) 4 Pakistani civilians injured Subsequent militant attacks: 5 Chinese civilians killed 13 Pakistani civilians killed 32 Pakistani civilians wounded |
These skirmishes mark the second round of air strikes by Pakistan on the sovereign soil of Afghanistan in a period less than two years. The first similar Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan soil came in 2022.[9]