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Strong Retaliation by the Taliban Following Last Night\u2019s Attacks; Pakistani Military Facility in Islamabad Reportedly Struck.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Taliban Ministry of Defense announced that its air units carried out a retaliatory operation in response to the attacks and casualties reported on the night of Monday, 16 March 2026.<\/strong> Strong Retaliation by the Taliban Following Last Night\u2019s Attacks; Pakistani Military Facility in Islamabad Reportedly Struck. The Taliban Ministry of Defense announced that its air units carried out a retaliatory operation in response to the attacks and casualties reported on the night of Monday, 16 March 2026. According to the statement, at approximately 17:00 local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15980,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958\/revisions\/15980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAccording to the statement, at approximately 17:00 local time (Pakistan Standard Time, UTC+5) on Tuesday, 17 March 2026, an important Pakistani military installation known as the \u201cHamza\u201d center, located in the Faizabad area in the heart of Islamabad, was targeted by unmanned aerial vehicles.<\/strong>
\nThe ministry stated that key command sections and major facilities of the base were struck with precision during the operation.<\/strong>
\nIt further emphasized that the attack allegedly inflicted heavy casualties on Pakistani forces and caused extensive financial damage.<\/strong>
\nThe incident comes after Pakistan reportedly conducted heavy strikes late on the evening of Monday, 16 March 2026, against Taliban positions in several Afghan provinces, including Kabul.<\/strong>
\nLocal sources said multiple Taliban weapons depots were targeted in those strikes and a number of the group\u2019s fighters were killed or wounded \u2014 an event that, according to Taliban officials, has now been answered by the attack on a military center in Islamabad.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"