Pakistan Suffers Massive Losses as Afghan Forces Pound with Artillery Shells

Описание: Pakistan Suffers Massive Losses as Afghan Forces Pound with Artillery Shells

Afghanistan launched an extensive cross-border attack into Pakistan along six provinces on Thursday night, in what it said was retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan. The Afghan Forces' blistering retaliation has inflicted massive losses on Pakistani troops, with reports of 55 Pakistani soldiers killed and 13 others taken captive.

The Afghan Defence Ministry has announced extensive offensive operations against Pakistani military centres and facilities, citing repeated Pakistani aggression. Afghanistan's Taliban government spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, stated that the operation is a response to Pakistan's "repeated provocations and violations".

Pakistan is in an “open war” with Afghanistan, Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif said Friday, with fighting escalating into the most serious armed confrontation between the two uneasy neighbors since a Qatari-mediated ceasefire in October.

The two countries share a long, complicated history harking back to Pakistan's creation in 1947. Bound by traditional social, ethnic and economic ties, relations have nonetheless been volatile and have often descended into armed conflict.

Over the last few months, the two have occasionally skirmished along their winding, porous frontier as tension has escalated. The latest confrontation is by far the most serious.

Afghanistan launched an extensive cross-border attack into Pakistan along six provinces on Thursday night, in what it said was retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan on Sunday. Pakistan had said those airstrikes had targeted and killed dozens of militants in Afghanistan, but Kabul said only civilians, including women and children, had been killed.

In response, Pakistan carried out airstrikes in the early hours of Friday on the Afghan capital and two other areas, Kandahar and Paktia. The border fighting, which had ceased by then, restarted and was continuing Friday.

Pakistan has witnessed a sharp rise in militant violence within the country in recent years, including suicide bombings and coordinated assaults targeting security forces. Pakistani authorities blame the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, for many of the attacks, and accuse Afghanistan of providing a safe haven for the group inside Afghanistan.

Kabul rejects the allegations, and says it does not allow anyone to use Afghan soil for attacks on any country, including Pakistan.

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