{"id":1409,"date":"2026-06-19T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:43:25","slug":"pakistan-we-identified-and-shot-down-a-taliban-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/2026\/06\/19\/pakistan-we-identified-and-shot-down-a-taliban-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: We Identified and Shot Down a Taliban Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"242\">Pakistan&#8217;s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting says that a Taliban surveillance drone was detected and immediately shot down after it entered the country&#8217;s airspace.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"444\">In a statement released today (Friday, June 19), the ministry&#8217;s Fact-Checking Division said the drone was brought down in the <strong data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"380\">Shinko<\/strong> area of <strong data-start=\"389\" data-end=\"408\">Khyber District<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"412\" data-end=\"443\">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"606\">The ministry also rejected the Taliban Ministry of Defense&#8217;s claim that it had carried out strikes against ISIS positions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"608\" data-end=\"782\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"784\" data-end=\"945\">Earlier today, the Taliban Ministry of Defense claimed that its air force had targeted &#8220;ISIS centers&#8221; in Pakistan&#8217;s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"947\" data-end=\"1045\">The ministry further claimed that the strikes successfully hit &#8220;important pre-designated targets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting says that a Taliban surveillance drone was detected and immediately shot down after it entered the country&#8217;s airspace. In a statement released today (Friday, June 19), the ministry&#8217;s Fact-Checking Division said the drone was brought down in the Shinko area of Khyber District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afg_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}