Pakistan has launched overnight air attacks inside Afghanistan, while the Taliban claimed hours later to have fired across the border, Aljazeera reported.
The strikes came as the neighbouring countries trade blame over who is responsible for a recent spate of militant attacks in Pakistan. Pakistan says the attacks were launched from Afghan soil, and Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban deny this, Reuters reported.
The Taliban defence ministry said it had targeted Pakistani troops at the border in response to the air strikes.
Though it was not immediately clear what prompted that attack, the Pakistani government and security officials as per Reuters said such attacks have risen in recent months, many of them claimed by the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) and launched from Afghan soil.
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