Since Friday mid-night intense fighting is raging between Pakistan security forces and Afghan Taliban supported by Indian-backed fitnat-al-Khawarij in response to unprovoked assault on Pakistani posts from across the border.

These attacks were launched from Afghan posts located at AngoorAdda, Bajaur, Kurram,Dir and Chitral areas in KPK and Zhob district in Balochistan.

Afghanistan government on Friday had accused Pakistan of carrying out air strikes on its territory and warned of “consequences. The Afghan military in a statement said,in retaliation for the air strikes by Pakistani forces Taliban border forces in the East engaged in heavy clashes against posts of Pakistani forces in various border areas.

Reportedly Pakistan forces have given a strong and decisive response to the aggression by Afghan forces and as per sources of the security forces almost all posts from where attacks were initiated against Pakistan have been annihilated and 19 of them have been captured resulting in killing of several Afghan soldiers and TTP terrorists.

Pakistani security forces believe that these attacks were aimed at facilitating the cross-border movement of the formations of “Khawarij” — TTP operatives. Till the writing of these lines the........

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