After Pakistan launched airstrikes on several cities in Afghanistan and killed several senior Pakistani Taliban groups, the Afghan Taliban government quickly launched a retaliatory operation, striking the Pakistani military at the border, resulting in intense hostilities between the two sides, killing hundreds and wounding hundreds of people, and the conflict also hurriedly ended in a matter of hours, but a larger conflict is in the midst.

01Afghanistan launches blitz attack on Pakistan

Late at night from October 11 to early morning on the 12th, Afghanistan launched attacks on multiple outposts in Pakistan at the border. According to the Afghan Ministry of Defense, this operation was a counterattack against Pakistan's previous violation of its airspace, resulting in 58 Palestinians. People were killed and 30 injured, while Afghanistan killed 9 people and injured 16 others.

Pakistan officials said that it was the Pakistan Taliban that day that day. After counterattack, the Pakistani security forces killed at least 200 militants. The exchange of fire killed 23 people in the Pakistan security forces and injured 29 others. It successfully attacked multiple training bases of the Pakistani Taliban, the Baluchistan Liberation Army, and the Islamic State, and also destroyed multiple Afghan military camps in the border area. Pakistan President Zardari even issued a statement saying that "Pakistan will never make any concessions on the issue of national sovereignty."

Afghanistan and Pakistan have different data on the war situation, and it is unclear what the real data is at present, but what is certain is that there were large-scale casualties on both sides of the exchange of fire. Otherwise, the exchange of fire would not have ended in a few hours after the beginning. Perhaps it was Pakistan's counterattack that made Afghanistan feel that something was wrong and announced the suspension of the action.

Afghanistan has dispatched a large number of Hummer off-road vehicles

From the perspective of firepower configuration, the two sides did use a lot of equipment. The Afghan Taliban forces drove a large number of Humvee off-road vehicles to the front line one by one. Relying on the large amount of equipment left behind by the US military when it withdrew from Afghanistan, Afghanistan's level of mechanization of ground forces may be even higher than that of Pakistan.

Pakistan has deployed large amounts of artillery, tanks and heavy weapons at four major border points.

The Afghan Taliban forces have a high level of mechanization of ground forces, but it does not mean that they are strong in combat. Previously, Afghanistan relied on guerrilla warfare to defeat the U.S. military. Even so, the total number of U.S. troops killed in 20 years was only 2420. In the end, the U.S. military had to withdraw its troops only when domestic anti-war sentiment was high and excessive consumption was excessive; it is one thing whether the Taliban left behind a large number of American equipment after the withdrawal can be properly maintained, but the transition from previous guerrilla warfare to a complete command system is another matter, especially in the face of regular troops like Pakistan that have undergone years of training and war-testing.

The cause of this incident was Pakistan's air strike against Afghanistan, but the target of the air strike was not the Afghan government, but the Pakistani Taliban, a terrorist organization. In the past few months, the organization launched many terrorist attacks against Pakistan, which killed 500 people in Pakistan in 2025 alone. In October, the attack even led to the death of many Pakistani military officers. Unable to bear it, Pakistan launched a beheading operation against the Pakistani Taliban armed forces hiding in Afghanistan, and this operation was also supported by American intelligence.

The Abu Dhabi conflict is also a new manifestation of geopolitical changes.

Logically, this struggle against terrorist groups should not be declared war on the Afghan side, but the fact is that the result is a declaration of war, in a sense can be considered as a shelter for the organization, this border battle, which appears to be a struggle against terrorism and sovereignty on the surface, but is actually a geopolitical chaos, the recent intensification of Afghan Taliban interaction with India, the two sides not only fully restored diplomatic relations, but also opened military cooperation and intelligence sharing, the Afghan Foreign Minister visited India on October 9,

Terrorist attacks in Pakistan have increased since the arrival of the Afghan Taliban government.

In the past, Pakistan has the support of India behind the terrorist organizations such as the Pakistan Taliban, which blamed the country, and in the context of Indo-Pakistan opposition, after Afghanistan and India opened up cooperation, India will be more able to use the Pakistani Taliban armed forces hidden in Afghanistan to launch attacks on Pakistan.

On the other hand, U.S.-India relations broke, and U.S.-Pacific relations began to develop in a friendly direction, India at this time chose to fully restore diplomatic relations with Afghanistan, which can also be considered another confrontation of all sides.

Now that the two sides have achieved a short ceasefire, but the Pakistani Prime Minister has indicated that he will make a tough response, and the Pakistani President has indicated that he will not make any concessions, so a bigger storm is brewing.

Source of information in the article: Pakistan and Afghanistan exchange fire in the border area Xinhua News Agency