'Open war': Pakistan and Afghanistan's Taliban claim major casualties
Pakistan has bombed Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and other cities, claiming to have killed hundreds of Afghan Taliban fighters, as Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said Islamabad would now be waging “open war”, while Afghanistan has also claimed to have inflicted substantial losses.
In a major escalation of the simmering tensions into all-out conflict between the neighbours, Asif said on Friday that his country’s “patience has run out” with the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan, following attacks by Afghan forces against Pakistani military positions along their shared border earlier.
Asif framed the attack as one that his country had been forced to make, and that followed “aggression” from Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s military later said its operation in Afghanistan was continuing “on the directions of the prime minister”.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pakistan-warplanes-bomb-kabul-clashes-014415369.html