Pakistan’s military targeted and destroyed several Afghan Taliban posts in a remote southwestern region on Wednesday in what officials described as a response to “unprovoked aggression,” signaling rising tensions between the neighbors. Two security officials said Pakistan also struck hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban near the town of Chaman, in southwestern Balochistan province. A day earlier, a mortar shell fired by the Afghan Taliban hit a house there, killing one civilian and wounding two others. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said Pakistani forces had thwarted “malicious intentions” of militants through timely action, adding that they were giving a “befitting response” to aggression.

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