An overnight drone strike targeted the Taliban’s Al-Fath 209 military corps in Dehdadi district in the northern province of Balkh, local sources said, as a temporary ceasefire between the two sides ended.
Sources told Amu TV that the corps was hit by what an unidentified drone. There were no immediate details on casualties or damage.
Taliban officials in Balkh denied that the base had been struck, but they confirmed that Pakistani military drones were seen over the province and came under fire from their air defense units.
Hamad Wasil, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Al-Fath Corps in Balkh, said Taliban forces fired at the drones in northern Afghanistan.
The reported strike comes as a temporary ceasefire between the Taliban and Pakistan expired on Monday midnight, March 23. The truce, which began March 18 during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, had been marked by mutual accusations of violations.
Taliban reported at least three incidents in which they said the ceasefire had been violated by Pakistani forces in the eastern provinces of Nuristan, Kunar and Paktia. Taliban also said that three civilians were killed in Pakistani shelling.
Pakistan’s information ministry called the allegations “baseless,” claiming that Pakistani military had not violated the ceasefire.
