Overview
- A gun-and-bomb assault on a Pakistan Rangers facility in Karachi left three Rangers dead and four injured in a Saturday night attack, and security forces say they killed three attackers and captured one suspect alive.
- The military’s media wing identified the captured suspect as an Afghan national linked to Jamaat‑ul‑Ahrar and said he and his accomplices were trained in Afghanistan before crossing the border to carry out the operation.
- Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Afghan chargé d’affaires in Islamabad and its ambassador delivered a demarche in Kabul to press claims that Afghan soil was used to plan and train for the attack.
- Information Minister Attaullah Tarar announced precision strikes in Afghanistan’s Paktia, Paktika and Kunar provinces under “Operation Ghazab Lil Haq,” saying the raids killed 29 fighters in the camps targeted.
- Tarar also publicly condemned media use of the word “militants,” insisting the attackers be called “terrorists,” and the moves reflect a widening diplomatic and security rift that could prompt further cross‑border action or tougher demands on the Taliban administration.