Taliban security forces examine a house that was allegedly damaged following cross-border clashes between Pakistan and AfghanistanImage: keystone
February 28, 2026, 2:19 p.mFebruary 28, 2026, 2:19 p.m
The fighting between the neighboring countries Afghanistan and Pakistan continued on Saturday night. Pakistan has again attacked from the air in Afghanistan and destroyed military posts and equipment of the Afghan Taliban, wrote Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on the X platform. Pakistan accuses the Islamist Taliban ruling Afghanistan of supporting terrorist groups.
A Taliban military spokesman said in the morning that he had shot down a Pakistani military plane and taken the pilot prisoner. The Pakistani side denies this.
Operation Ghazb lil Haq
Update 0900 hours 28 Feb*Summary of Afg Taliban losses*
331 Killed,
500 + Injured,
104 Check posts destroyed,
22 Post Captured,
163 Tanks and Armed vehicles Destroyed
37 Locs across Afg eff tgt by air— Attaullah Tarar (@TararAttaullah) February 28, 2026
Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar’s X-Post.
The Afghan television station Tolonews reported, citing a spokesman for the Taliban government, that 52 civilians had been killed and 66 injured since last weekend. The information provided by both sides could not initially be independently verified.
Conflict between neighbors flares up again
There had already been fighting and attacks between Afghanistan and Pakistan last autumn. According to the UN, 70 Afghan civilians died after Pakistani attacks. Islamabad accuses Kabul of harboring terrorists who carry out attacks in Pakistan.
The renewed fighting broke out after Pakistan attacked targets in Afghanistan last weekend. The Afghan Taliban launched a counteroffensive on Thursday. At a press conference on Friday, Taliban spokesman Sabiullah Mujahid appeared open to dialogue between the conflicting parties. However, the Pakistan Defense Ministry said it would continue attacks until the Taliban stopped supporting terrorist groups. Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif described the conflict as an “open war”. (sda/dpa)