Overview
- Pakistan confirmed the restart of cross-border strikes, saying the campaign will continue until its goals are met and will focus on sites used by militants inside Afghanistan.
- Officials described the operation as precise strikes on leadership, command hubs, logistics lines and facilitators tied to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Pakistani Taliban.
- The Foreign Office said sustained outreach from 2021 to 2025, including high-level visits by Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, did not sever Taliban links to the TTP.
- Pakistan cited United Nations reporting on ties between the Afghan Taliban and the TTP as part of its rationale for targeting what it says are active militant facilities.
- Humanitarian agencies documented heavy civilian harm and displacement in earlier strikes, with the UN verifying 143 deaths in a Kabul hospital blast and the World Food Programme estimating 20,000 families newly uprooted.