Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 04:51am on 27 Feb 2026,Friday International
A major military escalation has erupted along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, with both nations claiming significant battlefield gains and heavy casualties. Pakistan Air Force jets struck targets in Kabul, Kandahar, Nangarhar and Paktia, with Islamabad claiming 133 Afghan Taliban and TTP fighters eliminated, 27 Taliban posts destroyed and 80 artillery tanks neutralised under "Operation Ghazab-Lil-Haq." Pakistan also claimed destruction of two Afghan corps headquarters and multiple brigade installations. Afghanistan's Taliban countered, claiming 55 Pakistani personnel killed, 17 taken hostage, two Frontier Corps headquarters destroyed and 19 outposts captured. Both governments have issued sharply conflicting accounts of the confrontation, described as one of the most intense episodes of cross-border fighting in recent years along the disputed Durand Line. (PC: X)
