A Pakistani army soldier stands guard on a border terminal in Ghulam Khan, a town in North Waziristan, on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Photo: AFP
Security sources said on Wednesday that Operation Ghazab Lil Haq resumed following a temporary pause in deference to Eidul Fitr celebrations and requests from Islamic countries. “This pause concluded at midnight between March 23 and 24,” they added.
Last week, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar had announced a “temporary pause” in Operation at the request of the brotherly Islamic countries of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the State of Qatar, and the Republic of Turkiye in view of the Eidul Fitr holidays. The minister had stated that the pause would be effective from midnight on March 18/19, 2026, to midnight on March 23/24, 2026.
Security sources said today that operations were an ongoing, precise and targeted military campaign directed against terrorist leadership, their support and command infrastructures, logistics networks, and all facilitators and abettors under the Afghan Taliban regime-controlled areas.
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“Operations under Ghazab Lil Haq will continue until the objectives are achieved and the Afghan Taliban regime reviews its misplaced priority of supporting terror proxies over the welfare of the Afghan people and Pakistan,” the sources added.
Operation Ghazab Lil Haq was launched last month following renewed clashes along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border, after Afghan Taliban forces fired on multiple locations, prompting swift military retaliation by Pakistan.
The neighbouring countries have been engaged in escalating hostilities along the frontier since then. The clashes intensified after Afghanistan launched a border offensive in response to Pakistani air strikes targeting terrorist positions.
The latest escalation in tensions between the two countries follows a series of tit-for-tat actions over the past year.
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Pakistan earlier carried out air strikes targeting camps of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State Khorasan Province inside Afghanistan after a wave of attacks in Pakistan, including a suicide bombing in Islamabad.
Islamabad has long maintained that TTP leaders operate from Afghan territory, an allegation that Kabul has repeatedly denied.
Tensions also surged after a series of explosions in Kabul on October 9 last year. Taliban forces subsequently targeted areas along Pakistan’s border, prompting Islamabad to respond with cross-border shelling.
The exchanges caused casualties and infrastructure damage on both sides and led to the suspension of trade after border crossings were closed on October 12, 2025.
