Pakistan-Afghanistan war: Kabul launches drone attack; Islamabad claims no casualties

Afghanistan said on Friday it had carried out drone strikes on Pakistani military installations as fighting between the two neighbors continued. Pakistan, meanwhile, said it shot down the drones using a counter-drone system and reported no casualties.The Afghan military launched attacks on the borders of six provinces late Thursday. The statement said the operation was in retaliation for Sunday’s air strikes by Pakistan in the Afghan border region and claimed there was “irrefutable evidence” that Afghan militants were behind a recent wave of attacks and suicide bombings in Pakistan.

Authorities in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province said fighting continued in the Torkham border area on Friday morning.They also claimed Pakistani mortar fire hit civilian areas, including a refugee camp that was evacuated overnight, and Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif said the country now considered itself to be in an “open war” with Afghanistan.Both sides gave different casualty figures. The Afghan Defense Ministry said that 55 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 8 Afghan soldiers died. Pakistan Information Minister Attaullah Talal said two Pakistani soldiers were killed and three others were injured. Prime Minister’s Spokesperson Shehbaz Sharif It denied claims that Pakistani soldiers were captured and said more than 100 Afghan fighters were killed. this United Nations Many other countries, including Iran and China, have urged both countries to protect civilians and resolve their differences diplomatically, and have called for an immediate end to the fighting.In early October, border clashes between the two countries killed dozens of soldiers. The fighting ceased, brokered by Türkiye, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, resulting in a fragile ceasefire.