ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s defense minister said the country is at war with Afghanistan following what he said was a series of cross-border attacks.
“Our patience has run out and now there is an open war between us,” Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif said in a social-media post on Friday.
Pakistan has been pressing the Taliban regime in Kabul to halt attacks by Afghan forces and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, a group of Pakistani militants based across the border.
Pakistan has responded
ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s defense minister said the country is at war with Afghanistan following what he said was a series of cross-border attacks.
“Our patience has run out and now there is an open war between us,” Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif said in a social-media post on Friday.
Pakistan has been pressing the Taliban regime in Kabul to halt attacks by Afghan forces and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, a group of Pakistani militants based across the border.
Pakistan has responded “in full force,” striking Taliban hide-outs in Afghanistan and hitting targets in Kabul, the Afghan capital, according to Pakistan security forces.
A spokesman for the Taliban government in Afghanistan said the Pakistani military had carried out airstrikes in parts of Kabul, Kandahar and Paktia, a southeastern province that borders Pakistan. He said there were no casualties.
Updates will follow of this developing story.
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