New Delhi: Afghanistan’s Taliban government has said its forces killed at least 58 Pakistani soldiers in cross-border clashes late Saturday, following Pakistani airstrikes that struck several Afghan provinces, including capital Kabul.

Mawlawi Mohammad Qasim Riaz, the spokesperson for Helmand’s provincial administration, told reporters that the “retaliatory operations” were launched after Islamabad’s “violation of Afghanistan’s sovereignty.” The operations, he said, concluded around midnight.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that Afghan forces had seized 25 Pakistani army outposts, killing 58 soldiers and injuring 30 others. The clashes, which erupted along multiple stretches of the 2,640-kilometer Durand Line, mark one of the most serious escalations between the two countri

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