{"id":6978,"date":"2026-02-28T01:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6978"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:15:09","slug":"pm-shehbaz-visits-ghq-given-detailed-briefing-on-situation-between-pakistan-and-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6978","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz visits GHQ, given detailed briefing on situation between Pakistan and Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/02\/27174956fbc12b4.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday visited General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, where the military leadership gave him a \u201cdetailed briefing\u201d on the situation between Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes after Pakistan\u2019s security forces launched an operation, dubbed Ghazab lil-Haq, against the Afghan Taliban after it launched unprovoked attacks along the border between both countries on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a handout by the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, PM Shehbaz said that zero tolerance should be adopted against the nexus between the Afghan Taliban and <em>Fitna al Khwarij<\/em> and its malicious actions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fitna al Khawarij<\/em> is a term the state uses for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe actions of the Afghan Taliban regime and <em>Fitna al Khawarij<\/em> against Pakistan are unacceptable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--left    media--uneven  media--stretch\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PTVNewsOfficial\/status\/2027364413406408832\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--twitter  \"><span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTVNewsOfficial\/status\/2027364413406408832\"><\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He added that the country\u2019s armed forces, under the leadership of Chief of Defence Forces Asim Munir, were always ready to defend the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan knows how to defend itself against any aggression,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The premier also praised the professional capabilities of the armed forces for repelling attacks by the Afghan Taliban regime in the border areas and for retaliating vigorously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire nation stands with the armed forces for protecting the homeland,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1976167\/pm-shehbaz-visits-ghq-given-detailed-briefing-on-situation-between-pakistan-and-afghanistan\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday visited General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, where the military leadership gave him a \u201cdetailed briefing\u201d on the situation between Pakistan and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}