Overnight ground operations and strikes by Pakistani forces have killed at least 36 civilians and injured more than 160 others, Afghan officials said on Monday, as tensions between the neighbours further escalated.
One official said the attacks would be met with retaliation.
Pakistani security forces carried out a ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border late on Sunday, followed by strikes against militant hideouts and safe havens, killing 29 fighters, Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said.
Pakistan said the operations were launched in response to multiple militant attacks across Pakistan.
Afghanistan condemned the strikes as a “cowardly act of aggression” and an “act of brutality”.
Hayatullah Mohajer Farahi, the deputy minister for publications at the Ministry of Information and Culture, said Afghanistan would respond “in due time”.