Key facts
- Pakistan security sources said Friday that the country thwarted an attempted Afghan attack in its border area of Gulistan, killing several members of the Afghan Taliban.
- The incident follows Pakistan's airstrikes on 10 Afghan locations it said were used for drone attacks.
- Afghanistan's Taliban government claimed Pakistani airstrikes killed four civilians.
- Intermittent firing was still underway between the Afghan Taliban and security forces in the border area.
- Pakistan's air force struck 10 locations in Afghanistan on Thursday that Islamabad said were being used to launch and store drones.
- Pakistan also carried out airstrikes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region on Monday, killing 28 militants, while Afghan Taliban officials accused it of killing three civilians in overnight strikes.
Pakistan security sources said Friday that the country thwarted an attempted Afghan attack in its border area of Gulistan, killing several members of the Afghan Taliban. The incident comes as tensions have resurfaced between the two nations after three months of relative calm, following an attack on a police facility in northwestern Pakistan last week that killed at least 24 people.
Pakistan's air force struck 10 locations in Afghanistan on Thursday that Islamabad said were being used to launch and store drones. Afghanistan's Taliban government claimed these strikes killed four civilians. Pakistan also carried out airstrikes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region on Monday, killing 28 militants, while Afghan Taliban officials accused it of killing three civilians in overnight strikes.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have increasingly been at odds over expanding insurgencies in their western and northwestern border region. Islamabad accuses Kabul of harboring Islamist militants who stage cross-border attacks, while Afghanistan's Taliban government denies this, saying militancy is Pakistan's internal problem. The two Muslim neighbors engaged in their worst fighting in years in February, and more than 400 people were killed in a Pakistani airstrike on Kabul in March.