Pakistan: We Identified and Shot Down a Taliban Drone

Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting says that a Taliban surveillance drone was detected and immediately shot down after it entered the country’s airspace.

In a statement released today (Friday, June 19), the ministry’s Fact-Checking Division said the drone was brought down in the Shinko area of Khyber District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

The ministry also rejected the Taliban Ministry of Defense’s claim that it had carried out strikes against ISIS positions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

According to the statement, ISIS camps and other terrorist groups are based within territory controlled by the Taliban regime, where they are allegedly managed and supported.

Earlier today, the Taliban Ministry of Defense claimed that its air force had targeted “ISIS centers” in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.

The ministry further claimed that the strikes successfully hit “important pre-designated targets.”