Afghanistan says its forces hit militant hideouts in Pakistan, Islamabad denies claim

KABUL/KARACHI: Afghanistan said on Friday it had launched airstrikes on hideouts of Islamist militants in two Pakistani provinces, an assertion swiftly rejected by Islamabad, months after the neighbors engaged in their worst conflict in years. The Taliban government’s defense ministry said in a post on X that hideouts in Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, both of which share a border ‌with Afghanistan, ‌had been targeted by the Afghan air force on ‌Thursday ⁠night. It did not ⁠specify how the attack — Kabul’s first major offensive action in months — was carried out.

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