KABUL/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government said on Monday that airstrikes killed at least 28 militants in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, with one security official saying two Afghan provinces were targeted. A Pakistani official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the strikes happened in the Afghan provinces of Paktika and Kunar. Pakistan’s Information Ministry gave the death toll. – Reuters AFP adds: Pakistan’s Information and Broadcasting Ministry confirmed that forces had struck three locations, saying “terrorist hubs” along the border were targeted “based on credible intelligence”. The ministry said “28 terrorists alongside multiple suicide bombers” were killed, a figure rejected by the Taliban government, which said it was “not true”.



