Pakistan Air Force conducted airstrikes destroying a major Taliban ammunition depot in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, as part of Operation Ghazab Lil Haqq between 8:15:40 PM and 8:45:43 PM UTC on February 26, 2026, in response to unprovoked Afghan Taliban border aggression near the Durand Line, according to PTVNewsOfficial and security sources cited by AnasMallick on X. Additional Pakistani Army actions targeted terrorist hideouts in Nawapass sector, killing several Taliban fighters and destroying their posts, per PTVNewsOfficial. A senior Pakistani official told The Khorasan Diary that the Nangarhar depot was the first target struck by aerial assets, with further strikes planned if escalation continues, as posted by khorasandiary on X. PTVNewsOfficial reported ongoing Pakistan Air Force strikes and confirmed destruction of the depot, while Mohsin_o2 specified attacks began at 0100 hrs local time. Residents fled Dur Baba district in Nangarhar amid nighttime fighting between Taliban and Pakistani forces, abandoning homes with women and children among evacuees, according to ZawiaNews on X. Taliban commander Hamid Khorasani joined front lines along the Durand border, per AhmadSharifzad on X. Unconfirmed reports emerged of a Pakistan Air Force JF-17 fighter jet crashing near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, as stated by RealWahidaAFG on X. AhmadSharifzad reported Kandahar calm with prior airstrike videos fake, and taahir_khan shared video of calm in Kabul's Shahr-e Naw area. These developments follow firing cessation at Torkham and across Kandahar regions in the prior 7:45-8:15 PM window, where Pakistan reported 44 Taliban killed in Kurram including 8 in that period, per PTVNewsOfficial, while Taliban claimed 55 Pakistani deaths, as detailed in previous updates.
