Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif earlier declared his country was in “open war” with its western neighbor
Afghan forces have suffered nearly 1,000 casualties in the latest cross-border escalation with Pakistan, officials in Islamabad have claimed.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said at least 415 Taliban fighters and allied militants had been killed and more than 580 wounded in airstrikes and clashes since Thursday. He shared the figures in a post on X on Saturday.
The minister also claimed 182 Afghan checkpoints had been destroyed, along with 185 tanks, armored vehicles and artillery pieces, with airstrikes targeting 46 locations across the country.
Kabul has not commented on the figures cited by Tarar. Afghan government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat claimed on Saturday that three days of border clashes had left 78 dead, including 12 Pakistani soldiers and one civilian, and 13 Afghan soldiers plus 52 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children. Casualties were reported in Paktika, Khost, Kunar, Nangarhar, and Kandahar provinces, he said in separate statements on X.
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