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News agency Reuters quoted the Afghan ministry as saying that several points beyond the imaginary line, which were serving as hubs and hideouts for malign elements and their supporters organizing and coordinating attacks in Afghanistan, were identified in the country’s southeast. Disha was targeted in retaliation.
The Afghan Defense Ministry said Afghan Taliban forces targeted several posts inside Pakistan near the border in response to last week’s deadly airstrikes. However, details regarding the number of casualties or the nature of the attacks remain unclear. Afghan officials also did not explicitly mention the locations of the attacks, but said it occurred beyond the imaginary line, a term Afghan officials use to describe the disputed border with Pakistan.
On 24 December, Pakistan launched a series of airstrikes targeting insurgent training facilities in Afghanistan’s Paktika province. Taliban officials claimed at least 46 people were killed in the attack, mostly women and children, and vowed to retaliate. News agency Reuters quoted the Afghan ministry as saying that several points beyond the imaginary line, which were serving as hubs and hideouts for malign elements and their supporters organizing and coordinating attacks in Afghanistan, were identified in the country’s southeast. Disha was targeted in retaliation.
The Afghan official said that we do not consider it as Pakistan’s territory, so we cannot confirm this area, but it was on the other side of the imaginary line. Afghanistan has long opposed the Durand Line, a border demarcated by the British in the 19th century that cuts through the rugged and often unruly tribal areas that now separate Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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