On March 18, Pakistan announced that it had carried out airstrikes against militants affiliated with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) inside Afghanistan. The Taliban regime in Kabul said the Pakistani strikes had, in fact, killed five women and three children.
The Pakistani foreign ministry said terrorists belonging to the TTP’s Hafiz Gul Bahadur group were targeted after the outfit claimed responsibility for the March 16 attack on an army outpost in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in which seven personnel, including two officers, were killed.
