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Operation Ghazab Lil Haq Enters Second Week as UN Reports 100,000 Displaced

Pakistan says it will not negotiate and will press the campaign until militant sanctuaries end.

Displaced Afghan children, who along with their family, fled following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces at a border crossing, sit outside their makeshift tent as they take refuge in Lal Pur district in eastern Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, March 4, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer
Local residents examine damages to their house due to mortar shell fired by Afghan forces, at a village in Khyber, a district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering with Afghanistan, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/S.B. Shah)
Local residents examine damages to their house due to mortar shell fired by Afghan forces, at a village in Khyber, a district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering with Afghanistan, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/S.B. Shah)
Afghan Taliban soldiers look toward the Pakistani side, on the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing with Pakistan in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Wahidullah Kakar)

Overview

  • Pakistani forces report ongoing air and ground strikes across Afghan territory, with targets cited from Kandahar to sites near Bagram.
  • Information Minister Attaullah Tarar claims 527 Taliban fighters killed, more than 755 wounded, 237 checkposts destroyed, 38 captured, and 205 vehicles and artillery pieces knocked out, with 62 locations hit by airstrikes.
  • Afghanistan’s defense ministry says Taliban units killed 30 Pakistani soldiers in Kandahar’s Shorabak and seized posts in Paktia, assertions not confirmed by Pakistan.
  • The United Nations estimates about 115,000 people in Afghanistan and 3,000 in Pakistan have been displaced, with UNAMA reporting 56 Afghan civilian deaths as Kabul cites a higher toll and Islamabad rejects the figures.
  • Security officials in Pakistan report cross-border mortar fire that killed one person and injured seven in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and a bomb in Wana market killed two policemen during the ongoing operation.