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Saturday, March 14, 2026

Pakistan rubbishes Afghan Taliban claim of captured post as 'false and fabricated' - The Express Tribune

MOIB says no credible evidence for Taliban's battlefield claims, Afghan public suffering under terror sponsors

The information ministry on Saturday rejected claims by the Afghan Taliban regime of capturing a Pakistani military post and inflicting damage, terming them false, fabricated and aimed at misleading the Afghan public.

In a statement posted on X, the ministry’s fact-checking account shared a picture from Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence account claiming that a Pakistani military checkpost had been captured and 14 soldiers had been killed, dismissing the claim as "false as always, fabricated and designed to mislead Afghan internal public opinion, which are unfortunately first hand experiencing and suffering under these terror sponsors".

It said assertions made by the Taliban’s “so-called Ministry of Defence” were part of a pattern of propaganda that had “always fallen on their face once fact checked”, adding that “there has been no credible and verifiable evidence of such repeated frivolous claims made by the Taliban outlets”.

“Damages and losses incurred by master proxy Afghan Taliban and their extension Fitna Al Khawarij are being regularly updated by MOIB,” the statement said, adding that related video and pictorial evidence, where applicable, was also shared with the media rather than resorting to fake claims and propaganda.

Fitna Al Khawarij is a term the state uses for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

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