Pakistan's military says it killed several militants from Afghanistan

Pakistan military sources said on the 24th that Pakistani security forces killed several militants from Afghanistan overnight in the Gulistan area of Balochistan Province in the southwest of the country. The source said that Pakistani security forces and the militants are still exchanging intermittent fire, and that Pakistani security forces will maintain a high level of alert in the border areas, ready at any time to make a timely and effective response to any act of intrusion into Pakistani territory from Afghanistan. Afghan government spokesman Mujahid said in a statement on social media on the 24th that the Pakistani military launched airstrikes before dawn that day on three Afghan provinces, killing at least 4 people. The statement said the attacks affected Paktia Province in eastern Afghanistan, Khost Province, and Kandahar Province in the south, all three of which border Pakistan, and that the Afghan government will give an "appropriate response" to the "barbaric aggression."