At least 133 Afghan servicemen were killed and over 200 wounded as a result of border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Pakistani Minister of Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar wrote on the X social network.
He said that by midnight Moscow time (9:00 p.m. GMT), the Pakistani army destroyed 27 Afghan posts and captured 9. Also, Pakistani troops destroyed over 80 tanks, artillery guns and armored personnel carriers.
He confirmed that strikes were delivered on Afghan military sites in Kabul, Kandahar and Paktia.
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Pakistan declares ‘open war’ on Afghanistan, fighter jets bomb Kabul
ReplyDeletePakistan launched strikes on the Afghan cities of Kabul and Kandahar in the early hours of Friday, according to Pakistani government officials.
ReplyDeleteA spokesperson for the Afghan Taliban said on X that it had responded with renewed attacks against Pakistani troops along their shared border - though the post has now been deleted.
Pakistani authorities said that their "counter strikes" on the Afghan cities were a response to "unprovoked Afghan attacks" - though the Afghan Taliban said those were in response to earlier Pakistani strikes.