Pakistan’s security forces carried out ground and air operations along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Sunday, killing at least 29 militants, while the Afghan Taliban said dozens had been killed in air strikes in its border areas.
Four fighters linked to Jamaat-ul-Ahrar were killed in the ground attacks, Pakistan Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on X early on Monday. The group is a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
Air strikes on three targets in Paktia, Paktika and Kunar killed 25 militants while “large quantities of weapons and ammunition” were destroyed, he added.
Dozens were killed and injured in air strikes by Pakistan, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said in a Monday post on X.
“The attacks resulted in the deaths and injuries of dozens of civilians, including women and children. We strongly condemn this cowardly act of aggression and consider it a crime and an act of brutality,” Zabiullah said.
Pakistan was responding to “recent multiple terrorist incidents,” Tarar said in his post.
A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar bomb and gun attack on a Sindh Rangers facility in Karachi killed three paramilitary troops and injured four, Pakistan’s military said on Saturday.
Islamabad accuses Kabul of harbouring militants that it says plot attacks in Pakistan. The Afghan Taliban denies the allegations and says militancy is Pakistan’s internal problem.
(Reuters)
