The high impact, sharp-retaliatory response named Operation Ghazab Lil Haq was launched on 27 February 2026 in response to what security authorities believe is an increasing threat network base in the Afghan territory. The first figures that are being drained out are grim 133 Taliban Kharjis were reported to have been killed, more than 200 injured, and other deaths are expected to be witnessed once they strike military installations in Kabul, Paktia and Kandahar. The authorities also indicate that 27 posts had been destroyed and 9 of them captured, 2 corps headquarters, 3 brigade headquarters, 2 ammunition depots, one logistics base, 3 battalion headquarters, 2 sector headquarters, and more than 80 tanks, artillery pieces and armoured personnel carriers had also been destroyed.

Those numbers, in case they were genuine, can be regarded as a symbolic rather than a degrading command, control and sustainment campaign. There is no news cycle of striking headquarters, depots and logistics nodes. It is everything to destabilize the movement, fighting and restorative of a force. Another dimension is taking posts: it presupposes ground follow through and standoff strikes only. In other words, there will not be safe spaces and depth that will not be perceived as untouchable any longer.

To start with, the real problem in the area is that of armed groups, cross border facilitation, and how the Afghan territory has been exploited to several occasions as a staging ground, training ground and bargaining points over........

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