The television channel Ariana News reported fighting on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
The Taliban's Ministry of Defense said that “several points and hideouts of criminal elements and their supporters, from where attacks in Afghanistan were organized, were attacked in response from the southeastern part of the country“.
According to media sources, light and heavy weapons were used in the clashes, Ariana News reported.
On December 24, the Taliban's defense ministry reported that Pakistani forces had carried out strikes in an area of Paktika province. The ministry condemned the Pakistani actions, stressing that they violated international norms and "are not a solution to any problem." The defense ministry assured that the incident "will not go unanswered." The attack in Paktika killed at least 50 people and wounded 40 others.
Pakistan's airstrikes on targets in Afghanistan were the second this year after those in March. The new strikes came hours after Pakistan's special envoy for Afghanistan, Mohammad Sadiq, met in Kabul with the foreign minister of the radical Taliban government. Amir Khan Muttaki.
This came amid a cooling in Pakistan-Afghanistan relations caused by increased border clashes and ongoing terrorist attacks in Pakistan carried out by militants based in Afghanistan.