Pakistan says responding to 'unprovoked' Afghan Taliban fire along border

Karachi: Pakistan's security forces responded ⁠to "unprovoked fire" by ⁠Afghan ‌Taliban forces ​at multiple points along the Pakistan–Afghanistan ​border on Thursday, ⁠Pakistan's information ministry said.

The ministry ⁠wrote ‌on X that Taliban ‌forces ⁠opened fire across several sectors ‌in ‌Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ‌and ‌that Pakistani troops delivered an "immediate and ⁠effective response", ⁠inflicting heavy casualties and destroying multiple posts and equipment.