Claim: A video shows an attack by Afghanistan’s military forces on a Pakistani border checkpost in September 2026.
Fact: The video predates the September 2026 clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It can be traced back to at least April 2026.
On 22 September 2026, multiple Facebook users posted a video showing a cross-border attack at a checkpost, with captions claiming it is from the recent exchange of attacks between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In particular, many posts stated that the video shows the Afghan forces’ retaliatory response to Pakistan’s September 2026 attacks.
Some of the accompanying captions read as follows:
- “افغان سرحدی فورسز نے ڈیورنڈ لائن کے ساتھ پاکستانی افواج پر حملے شروع کیے ہیں۔ ایک فوجی چیک پوسٹ کو اڑا دیا۔ [Afghan border forces have launched attacks on Pakistani forces along the Durand Line. They blew up a military checkpoint.]”
- “پاکستانی جٹ طیاروں کے حملوں کے جواب میں افغان سرحدی فورسز کی ڈیورنڈ لائن کے ساتھ پاکستانی افواج پر شدید حملے جاری [In response to attacks by Pakistani fighter jets, Afghan border forces are carrying out intense assaults on Pakistani forces along the Durand Line.]”
The video also circulated with an alternate claim suggesting that it showed Pakistani fighter jets launching retaliatory strikes on Afghan border posts along the Durand Line.
Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict
On 24 September, Pakistan conducted airstrikes in 10 locations in Afghanistan in response to alleged drone strikes from the Taliban government on 23 September.
Earlier, on 21 September, Pakistan bombed multiple sites in eastern Afghanistan, allegedly killing 28 militants. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) claimed four civilian casualties during these attacks.
In a statement, the Information Ministry said Pakistan carried out “selective targeting of terrorist camps and hideouts belonging to Fitna al khwarij and its affiliates” in the border region with Afghanistan “based on credible intelligence”. The strikes destroyed three targets, “including a Suicide Bombers training markaz [centre], killing twenty eight terrorists along side multiple suicide bombers”, as well as “large quantities of weapons and ammunition”.
Pakistan vowed to continue “our relentless Counter Terrorism campaign Ghazab lil Haq under vision ‘Azm e Istehkam’” in a bid to “wipe out the menace of foreign sponsored and supported terrorism from the country”.
“Fitna al-Khawarij” is a term the government uses to refer to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a terrorist group also known as the Pakistani Taliban that Islamabad has long accused Kabul of harbouring.
Pakistan “called on Afghanistan’s Taliban government to dismantle militant sanctuaries and recruitment and training networks on its soil, warning Islamabad had the ‘will and capability’ to eliminate such threats wherever they were” following the Kohat mosque bombing, Arab News reported on 19 September.
The recent wave of airstrikes on Afghanistan was spurred by an 18 September suicide bombing at a police compound in Kohat by the TTP.
The state-run Pakistan TV reported in August 2026 that according to United Nations’ (UN) Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team Coordinator Colin Smith, “at least 20 terrorist groups are active in Afghanistan, with the Taliban hosting multiple such organizations and maintaining relations with them”.
“Evidence of strong ties between the Taliban and the TTP needs to be taken seriously,” Smith said, according to the outlet.
The neighbouring countries have been at war since Pakistan struck militant bases in the Nangarhar and Paktika provinces of Afghanistan on 21 February 2026.
Prior to the ongoing war, there was an exchange of heavy fire along the Spin Boldak-Chaman border in December 2025, with both sides accusing the other of initiating the exchange.
In October 2025, there was a week of deadly border clashes along the same border, killing and injuring dozens in Spin Boldak.
The Taliban administration denies harbouring militant groups that launch cross-border attacks and has condemned Pakistan “violating Kabul’s sovereign territory”.
Fact or Fiction?
A reverse-search led Soch Fact Check to a Facebook post from 22 April 2026 carrying the same video.
Apparently posted by an Afghan user, it is accompanied by the following caption:
“بل راکم خوند یې پرې کړئ ویډیؤ اوګورئ😘 پیښمان نیدل نشته چې ویی ګورئ
[Here is another entertaining video — check it out! 😘 You won’t regret watching it.]”
The viral clip appears at the 2:20 mark of the four-minute-long video. Towards the end, a man — apparently a Taliban member — can be seen firing rounds.
That the video could be traced back to April 2026 proves that it predates the September 2026 clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
However, it is unclear if the location is indeed a Pakistani military checkpost.
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the viral clip is misleading.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found that the video was posted multiple times on social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter).
It was also shared by Indian and Afghan users.
Conclusion: The video predates the September 2026 clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It can be traced back to at least April 2026.
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