The Afghan Taliban movement has hit “several points” in response to attacks in Pakistan, Taliban news

The attacks come days after the Taliban vowed to retaliate against Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan.

The Afghan Ministry of Defense said that Afghan Taliban forces targeted “several points” in neighboring Pakistan. aerial bombardment within the country.

The defense ministry’s statement on Saturday did not directly indicate that Pakistan had been hit, but said the attacks were carried out “out of speculation” – a phrase Afghan officials use to refer to the border with Pakistan. argued for a long time.

The ministry said that several points beyond the hypothetical line, which serve as centers and shelters for malicious elements who organize and coordinate attacks in Afghanistan and their supporters, were targeted in response from the southeast direction of the country.

Asked whether the statement referred to Pakistan, ministry spokesman Enayatullah Khawarazmi said: “We don’t consider it Pakistani territory, so we can’t confirm the territory, but it was on the other side of the hypothetical line.”

Afghanistan has for decades rejected the border known as the Durand Line, drawn by British colonial authorities in the 19th century between what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan through a mountainous and often lawless tribal belt.

No details were given on casualties or specific areas targeted. A spokesman for Pakistan’s military public relations wing and the foreign ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Meanwhile, a security source told AFP news agency on Saturday that at least one Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others were wounded in a cross-border firefight with Afghan forces.

The border between Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and Afghanistan’s Khost province saw sporadic clashes, including heavy weapons, between border forces overnight, officials from both countries said.

The incidents came after the Afghan Taliban accused Pakistan of killing 46 people, mostly women and children, in airstrikes near the border this week.

Islamabad said it was targeting militant hideouts along the border, while Afghan officials warned of retaliation on Wednesday.

The neighbors have strained relations, with Pakistan reporting several attacks on its territory from Afghan soil – a charge the Afghan Taliban denies.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which shares a common ideology with its Afghan counterparts, claimed last week’s attack on an army post near the border with Afghanistan, which Pakistan said killed 16 soldiers.

“We want to have good relations with them (Afghanistan), but TTP must stop killing our innocent people,” Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in his Cabinet address on Friday.

“This is our red line.”