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PM’s spokesperson says 297 Afghan Taliban killed; 89 posts destroyed

Mosharraf Zaidi, the prime minister’s spokesperson for foreign media, has given an update on Operation Ghazab lil-Haq, saying Pakistan’s efforts to eliminate the scourge of terrorism emanating from Afghanistan continued through the day.

In a post on X, he said, “A total of 297 Afghan Taliban are confirmed killed, and more than 450 are reported injured.”

He further said that 89 Afghan Taliban posts have been destroyed and 18 have been captured, while 135 Afghan Taliban regime tanks and armed personnel carriers have been destroyed.

“Twenty-nine locations across Afghanistan have been subjected to aerial targeting,” he said.

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