{"id":10592,"date":"2025-10-15T17:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=10592"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:11:22","slug":"army-carries-out-precision-strikes-in-afghanistans-kandahar-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/army-carries-out-precision-strikes-in-afghanistans-kandahar-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Army carries out \u2018precision strikes\u2019 in Afghanistan\u2019s Kandahar: state media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan armed forces conducted \u201cprecision strikes\u201d in Afghanistan\u2019s Kandahar province amid active border hostilities between the two countries, state broadcaster&nbsp;<em>PTV News<\/em>&nbsp;reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement uploaded on X, quoting security sources, said: \u2019\u2018Pakistan Army\u2019s retaliatory action against Afghan Taliban aggression, key hideouts destroyed. Key hideouts of Afghan Taliban successfully targeted by Pakistan Army.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese precision strikes were carried out in Afghanistan\u2019s Kandahar province. As a result of these strikes, Afghan Taliban Battalion Number 4 and Border Brigade Number 6 completely destroyed. Dozens of foreign and Afghan operatives killed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement added that the Pakistan Army possessed the \u201cfull capability to give a strong and complete response to any external aggression\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan armed forces conducted \u201cprecision strikes\u201d in Afghanistan\u2019s Kandahar province amid active border hostilities between the two countries, state broadcaster&nbsp;PTV News&nbsp;reported on Wednesday. A statement uploaded on X, quoting security sources, said: \u2019\u2018Pakistan Army\u2019s retaliatory action against Afghan Taliban aggression, key hideouts destroyed. Key hideouts of Afghan Taliban successfully targeted by Pakistan Army.\u201c \u201cThese [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,80,396,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia","category-latest","category-paksitan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}