Pakistani Forces Kill Several Afghan Taliban Fighters After Attempted Border Incursion in Gulistan, Balochistan

Pakistani security forces killed several Afghan Taliban fighters — reported by some outlets as 13 — in an overnight clash in the Gulistan sector of Qila Abdullah district, Balochistan, after Afghan Taliban forces attempted to enter Pakistani territory and attacked Pakistani border posts late on September 24 into the early hours of September 25, 2026. Pakistan's state-run Associated Press of Pakistan, citing security sources, said Afghan Taliban forces 'attempted to enter the Pakistani territory in Balochistan's Gulistan sector and carry out an act of aggression,' and that Pakistani troops responded in a retaliatory action along the border. An intermittent exchange of fire between security forces and Afghan Taliban was ongoing after midnight, with fighting continuing into Friday morning. The clash follows Pakistan's September 24 airstrikes on 10 sites in Kandahar, Paktia and Khost — which Afghan officials said killed four civilians — and Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid's warning that Kabul would deliver an 'appropriate response' to those strikes. Neither Pakistan's military nor Afghanistan's Taliban government issued an official, on-record casualty confirmation at time of writing.