Afghan Taliban confirm ‘retaliatory’ border attacks on Pakistan: BBC

The Taliban government has confirmed that it attacked Pakistani troops in multiple mountainous locations on the northern border, BBC has reported.

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Casualties are not yet clear in what the Taliban government called "retaliatory operations", after it claimed Pakistan had violated Afghan airspace and bombed a market inside its border on Thursday, according to the BBC report filed by Carrie Davies, Stuart Lau and Ethirajan Anbarasan.

BBC has quoted Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi as saying said the Afghan attacks were "unprovoked" and civilians were fired at; he has warned that his country's forces would respond "with a stone for every brick".

Islamabad has accused Kabul of harbouring terrorists bent on attacks Pakistan on its soil, a claim the Taliban government rejected.

Both the Afghan and Pakistani sides are said to have used small arms and artillery in the Kunar-Kurram region.