ISLAMABAD, February 27. /TASS/. Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif announced that his country is now in an open armed conflict with the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

The Afghan Defense Ministry announced the completion of a retaliatory military operation against the Pakistani armed forces, carried out the previous evening.

TASS has compiled the main information about the escalation of the situation.

- Fighting broke out along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on the evening of January 26.

- Kabul announced that it had launched a military operation in response to Pakistan's air strikes and captured 15 border posts.