KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – The Pakistani military said on Friday that Afghan citizens carried out most of the 28 suicide attacks recorded in the country so far this year, again accusing the Taliban of supporting armed groups operating against the country.
Pakistan’s Army spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry told a news conference that individuals linked to the Taliban’s security forces were also among those responsible for the attacks.
He said Afghan citizens were also involved in recent incidents in Tank district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in Karachi, adding that the attacker in Tank was an Afghan national.
“The majority of them are Afghanis. The Afghan national involved in the Tank attack was also an Afghani. Afghan nationals and people associated with their security forces are among the terrorists killed and captured,” Chaudhry said.
He stressed that Pakistan’s criticism was not directed at the Afghan people, but that the Taliban was responsible for the incidents. “It’s not Afghanistan, it’s the Afghan Taliban regime. Their business is terrorism, and through terrorism they sustain their economy and diplomacy,” he said.
Chaudhry also accused India of backing terrorist attacks on Pakistani soil after what he described as its defeat in direct military confrontation with Pakistan. He said this support had contributed to a rise in security incidents across the country.
According to the military, Pakistan’s armed forces conducted 40,348 intelligence-based operations between the beginning of January and the end of July 2026. More than 31,000 of those operations took place in Balochistan.
A total of 3,145 terrorist incidents were recorded across the country during the seven-month period. Of these, 1,971 occurred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1,148 in Balochistan and 26 in the provinces of Sindh and Punjab.
Chaudhry said 2,048 armed militants opposed to the Pakistani government were killed during this period, an average of about 10 a day. Recorded terrorist incidents claimed the lives of 819 Pakistanis, including 303 military personnel, 194 police officers and 322 civilians.
Relations between Pakistan and the Taliban administration have deteriorated in recent years over the activities of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which Islamabad says operates from Afghan territory. Pakistan accuses the Taliban of sheltering TTP leaders and fighters and allowing them to plan and launch attacks across the border.
The Taliban authorities have repeatedly rejected the allegations, saying they do not allow Afghan territory to be used against other countries and describing the TTP insurgency as Pakistan’s internal issue.
The dispute has contributed to heightened tensions between the neighbours, with Pakistan carrying out air strikes inside Afghanistan and both sides engaging in periodic border clashes along the shared border.
