Kabul – Explosions were heard in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday as the Taliban government said it was responding to Pakistani aerial attacks.
A spokesman for Afghanistan’s defense ministry said that “air defense strikes were carried out against Pakistani aircraft in Kabul.”
Months of cross-border clashes have flared again since Thursday, when Afghanistan launched an offensive along the frontier, with Pakistani forces hitting back on the border and from the skies.
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