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Afghanistan’s Taliban-led defence ministry late Friday released satellite footage showing strikes on multiple compounds inside Pakistan, as cross-border fighting between the two neighbours intensifies.

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Pakistan launched "Operation Ghazab lil-Haq," a retaliatory military campaign, targeting Afghan Taliban defense positions in response to alleged unprovoked cross-border firing. Senior ministers confirmed a large-scale counter-offensive, with Pakistan reporting significant Taliban casualties and destroyed infrastructure. Afghanistan claimed to have killed Pakistani soldiers in retaliatory operations along the Durand Line.

Pakistani forces launched airstrikes against military targets in the Afghan capital, Kabul, as well as other provinces close to the border