ISLAMABAD — The Foreign Office (FO) on Monday summoned the Afghan chargé d’affaires to register a strong diplomatic protest and issue a severe demarche following a deadly cross-border terrorist strike against a security facility in Karachi.
The diplomatic move follows Saturday night’s assault on the local headquarters of the Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) located in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar area. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), three security personnel were martyred and four others were injured in the engagement.
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Military units neutralized three attackers on-site and captured an active operative identified as Usman Ali, an Afghan national hailing from Jalalabad. Interrogations revealed the cell belonged to Jamaatul Ahrar (JuA)—a faction designated by Pakistan as an Indian proxy operating out of bases in Nangarhar, Afghanistan.
FO Spokesperson Tahir Andrabi stated that a parallel demarche—a formal diplomatic representation—was delivered directly to the Afghan Taliban regime in Kabul by Pakistan’s Ambassador Ubaidur Rehman Nizamani. The FO emphasized that the active participation of Afghan nationals proves their soil is continuously being leveraged to orchestrate regional instability.
In immediate retaliation to the Karachi attack, Pakistani forces executed overnight intelligence-based operations and calibrated precision strikes targeting active JuA and Fitna al Khawarij (TTP) strongholds. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar confirmed 29 terrorists were killed across Bajaur and Afghan border pockets in Paktia, Paktika, and Kunar.
The security situation has escalated continuously since the structural transition in Kabul in 2021. Saturday’s events follow a string of cross-border skirmishes that previously prompted Pakistan to launch Operation Ghazab lil-Haq earlier this year to dismantle established militant networks.
