Afghan Taliban forces targeted “several points” in neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s defense ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardment inside Afghanistan.

Afghan Taliban forces have targeted “several locations” in neighboring Pakistan. This comes a few days after Pakistani planes carried out strikes on camps in Afghanistan, according to Reuters and France 24.

Based on the statement issued by the Taliban defence ministry, attacks were conducted "beyond the hypothetical line", which is a term often used to describe Pakistan.

The Pakistani military conducted air raids potentially killed dozens while targeting alleged Pakistani Taliban militants in the rural Paktika Province of Afghanistan Tuesday night.

A Taliban government official says Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children.

The first cross-border strike inside Afghanistan since March came after a spate of attacks by the Pakistan Taliban.

Officials say rare Pakistani airstrikes have targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan, dismantling a training facility and killing some insurgents.

It is the first public admission by a senior Taliban leader regarding the presence of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan operatives in the country

At least 19 Pakistani soldiers and three Afghan civilians died after heavy clashes erupted between security forces of the two neighbouring nations at the border crossing points, media reports said on Saturday.

Taliban forces struck“ several points” in Pakistan in retaliation for Pakistani attacks on Afghanistan. Afghanistan's Taliban government said on Saturday that it struck "several points" inside neighboring Pakistan.