ISLAMABAD: Three Pakistani civilians, including two children, were killed and three others injured on Wednesday after the Taliban’s cross-border firing from Afghanistan in a border area of Bajaur district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, state media reported.
The unprovoked attack marks a renewed episode of cross-border Taliban aggression after a gap of over a month, following Pakistan’s large-scale counter terrorism operation Ghazab Lil Haq launched in response to earlier unprovoked hostility from the Afghan side.
In a post on X, state broadcaster PTV News stated, quoting security sources, that “Indian-backed Afghan Taliban unprovoked aggression on the civilian population in the border village of Malak Shahin in Kat Kot area of Bajaur” killed a woman and two children from the same house, while three were seriously injured.
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افغان طالبان کی باجوڑ میں پاکستانی سول آبادی پر گولہ باری ،2بچوں سمیت 3 افرادشہید، 3شدید زخمیبھارتی حمایت یافتہ افغان طالبان کی باجوڑ کے سرحدی علاقے کٹ کوٹ کے گاؤں ملک شاہین میں سول آبادی پر بلا اشتعال جارحیت ، سیکیورٹی ذرائع
بلا اشتعال گولہ باری کے نتیجے میں ایک… pic.twitter.com/6u37avUZKQ
— PTV News (@PTVNewsOfficial) April 15, 2026
The injured people were immediately rushed to the hospital for treatment.
“The Afghan Taliban have been trying to infiltrate a formation of the khawarij mischief-makers into Pakistan for the past few days. Due to the timely action by the Pakistan Army, the attempt to infiltrate the khawarij mischief-makers was foiled. Frustrated by this failure, the Afghan Taliban targeted Pakistan’s civilian population in Kat Kot today,” the statement said.
It added that the Pakistan Army responded immediately and destroyed the gun position firing from across the border.
It further said that Pakistani forces were also targeting Afghan Taliban posts along the Bajaur border, inflicting heavy losses and resulting in heavy casualties for the Afghan Taliban.
“Residents of Bajaur have strongly condemned this cowardly act and expressed complete solidarity with the security forces. Security forces remain vigilant and determined at all times to protect the lives and property of the people and to establish lasting peace in the area,” the statement added.
“Targeting the civilian population by the Afghan Taliban is clear evidence of their nefarious intentions and frustration,” the statement read.
Pakistan launched the counter terrorism operation Ghazab Lil Haq around the end of February against terrorist sanctuaries in Afghanistan following terrorist attacks.
Pakistan halted the counter terrorism operation during a temporary ceasefire on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
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 terrorists operate from Afghan territory.
