ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan's ambassador in Kabul was summoned to the Afghan foreign ministry on Thursday to lodge a formal protest against what the Taliban regime claimed were Pakistani military strikes in Nangarhar and Khost provinces, in a move indicating renewed tensions between the two hyphenated neighbours.

Afghan officials "strongly condemned" the strikes which they claimed resulted in the killing of three civilians and injuries to seven others.

In its protest note, the Afghan foreign ministry denounced what it called Pakistan's violation of Afghan airspace and the bombing of civilian areas near the Durand Line, describing the strikes as "a blatant breach of Afghanistan's territorial integrity and a provocative act."

The ministry further underscored that safeguarding Afghanistan's sover

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