Pakistan strikes Kabul hours after Afghanistan attack on border troops

"Pakistan's armed forces have given a befitting response to the Afghan Taliban's open aggression, said Naqvi, hours after Afghan forces attacked Pakistani border troops in what the Taliban government said was retaliation for earlier deadly airstrikes."

"Afghanistan said its military launched its attack across the border into Pakistan late on Thursday in retaliation for deadly Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan border areas Sunday, and claimed to have captured more than a dozen Pakistani army posts."

"Afghanistan's Defence Ministry said 55 Pakistani soldiers had been killed in the attack on Thursday, including some whose bodies had been taken into Afghanistan, while several others were captured alive. It put its own casualties at eight killed and another 11 wounded."

Pakistan launched airstrikes on Kabul, Kandahar, and Paktian province in response to Afghanistan's cross-border military attack. Afghanistan's Taliban government claimed the attack was retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan border areas that occurred on Sunday. Afghanistan reported capturing over a dozen Pakistani army posts and killing 55 Pakistani soldiers, while sustaining eight killed and eleven wounded. Pakistan dismissed these claims as unprovoked aggression and denied losing military positions. The escalation involves the disputed 2,611km Durand Line border, which Afghanistan has not formally recognized. Both nations' military actions threaten the stability of a Qatar-mediated ceasefire agreement.

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