Pakistani Jets Target Suspected TTP Hideouts in Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani airstrikes targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan early on Monday, the foreign ministry said. The Afghan Taliban said the attacks killed at least eight people and prompted return fire from their forces.

The exchange, two days after seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing and coordinated attack in the country’s northwest, marked an escalation that is likely to further increase tensions between Islamabad and Kabul.

The Foreign Office in Islamabad confirmed the strikes, describing them as “intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations in the border regions inside Afghanistan” and saying they targeted a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban.

The Afghan Taliban denounced the strikes as aggression on Afghanistan’s territorial integrity and said later Monday their forces “targeted Pakistan’s military centers along the border with heavy weapons,” without providing details. – AP

Pakistani Jets Target Suspected TTP Hideouts in Afghanistan

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