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Pakistan to maintain policy if guerrilla mindset persists

Pakistan warns it will continue tough policy unless Taliban change behaviour and stop militants using Afghanistan soil for attacks soon

By Fahad On Feb 26, 2026

Pakistan vs Afghanistan -(Web Desk) – Pakistan will continue its existing approach towards Afghanistan unless the Taliban move away from what officials describe as a “guerrilla mindset,” said State Minister Talal Chaudhry on Wednesday.

Speaking on Geo News programme Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath, the minister said the Taliban’s behaviour towards Pakistan is very different from how they deal with other countries. His remarks came after deadly suicide attacks in Islamabad, Bajaur, and Bannu, which Pakistan says were planned by militants operating from Afghan territory.

In response, Pakistan carried out overnight intelligence-based strikes in Nangarhar and Paktika, targeting camps and hideouts of banned groups including Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, its allies, and Daesh-Khorasan near the border. Islamabad has repeatedly asked Kabul to stop militants from using its land for attacks against Pakistan.

Chaudhry said the worsening situation is due to what he called an irresponsible neighbouring state. He added that Pakistan first tried dialogue to improve relations, but now practical actions are being taken to encourage the Taliban to behave like a responsible state.

While elaborating that the Taliban’s attitude towards Pakistan is different, the minister said that the group’s supreme leader Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada issues multiple fatwas in a day if there are issues concerning women.

A clear pattern from the Afghanistan-backed TTP after recent airstrikes by PAF!

They have started abducting Security Forces personnel, when they are off duty, and barbarians go to the extent where they abduct them even from Mosques, Homes etc.

That’s not a good thing. Multiple… https://t.co/v6BajbE2Gl pic.twitter.com/ZoEA4tx59G

— AM Raad (@Raad_Pak) February 26, 2026

“But if there is an attack on Pakistan’s mosques, Imambargahs, markets, innocent women, or a bus of school children, there is complete silence,” he stressed.

The ideal solution was for the issue to be resolved through dialogue; However, the pattern the government has now adopted will persist if the Taliban’s guerrilla mindset pattern continues, he added.

“And this war will be won, and all this will end. If it is not resolved the straight way, then it will be completely ended by a hardline approach,” Chaudhry added.

After Pakistan’s strikes, the Afghan Taliban regime resorted to unprovoked firing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border earlier this week in the Torkham and Tirah sub-sectors of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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The aggression, a spokesperson for the prime minister said, was met with immediate and effective response by Pakistan’s security forces, which silenced the Afghan side.

Warning that “any further provocation will be responded to immediately and severely,” the PM’s spokesperson reaffirmed the country’s resolve to continue to “protect its citizens and guard its territorial integrity”.