Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Pakistan conducted airstrikes in areas of Kabul, Kandahar and Paktia overnight, officials from both countries said, as Islamabad's defense minister early Friday declared Pakistan was in "open war" with Afghanistan.
Pakistani warplanes struck areas of the Afghan capital Kabul and its second-largest city, Kandahar, and Paktia province, Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, said in a statement, claiming there were no casualties -- which Pakistan disputes.
Mosharraf Zaidi, spokesman for Pakistan's prime minister, said Afghan military targets were hit, and claimed 133 Afghan Taliban fighters were killed and more than 200 wounded. The figures could not be independently verified.
Twenty-seven Afghan military posts were destroyed and nine captured in the assaults, he said.
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