Pakistan, Sept. 28 -- Defense analysts and regional security experts have rebutted recent reports published by international news outlets, dismissing their unverified reliance on the Afghan Taliban regime's allegations regarding recent fighting in Kunar and Nuristan provinces.

Experts have termed the attempt by Reuters and other media outlets in their report to link Pakistan to the internal clashes as completely baseless, noting that it glaringly ignores verifiable ground realities and the ongoing domestic turmoil within Afghanistan.

They pointed out severe discrepancies in the narrative promoted by the Taliban Ministry of Defense. They emphasized that visual evidence circulated on social media by the Afghan Taliban themselves clearly i...