Kabul, March 16 (NationPress) The Ministry of Defence of Afghanistan has announced that it executed a precision drone strike on a Pakistani military installation located in the Wana area of the South Waziristan region, part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This action was reportedly a response to recent airstrikes carried out by Islamabad in the Kandahar province, as reported by local media on Monday.

The ministry's release stated that the drone strike targeted facilities utilized by the commandos of the Special Service Group and additional military structures. It emphasized that the operation resulted in significant casualties and damage to Pakistani forces, according to Khaama Press, a leading news agency in Afghanistan.

As of now, Pakistani officials have not issued any comments regarding the Afghan drone strike.

Previously, Pakistani military forces conducted airstrikes in certain areas of Afghanistan's Kandahar province overnight, which Islamabad described as operations aimed at militant positions near the border.

Afghan officials reported that these Pakistani strikes hit a drug rehabilitation center and an unoccupied container, asserting that there were no casualties resulting from these attacks, Khaama Press noted.

The recent developments illustrate the escalating instability along the border, raising alarms that ongoing military actions could further exacerbate tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Last week, Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the Afghan government, stated that Pakistani airstrikes had resulted in four fatalities and left 25 others injured in Kabul.

As per the official report, Pakistan also executed air raids on the provinces of Kandahar, Paktika, Khost, and Nangarhar on Thursday night and Friday. An oil depot was specifically targeted in Kandahar, according to Xinhua News Agency.

On March 13, the Afghan Ministry of National Defence declared that it had struck Pakistani military facilities in the Kohat district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as retaliation for airstrikes conducted by Islamabad on Thursday night, which caused multiple civilian casualties on the Afghan side.

The statement from Kabul indicated that military installations in Kohat and the war command center along the Durand Line were the main targets of these strikes.

In a statement posted on X, Afghanistan's Ministry of National Defence declared, "In reaction to the recent incursions by the Pakistani military regime, Afghan air forces launched strikes this morning on key military centers and installations of the Pakistani army in the Kohat region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa."

Another message shared on X described how the Kohat military fort was attacked, alongside the war command center located about two kilometers from the fort and the commander's office, which were also accurately targeted.

According to the ministry, "These strikes led to the destruction of military installations at the fort, the command center, depots, and soldiers' living quarters, resulting in considerable human and material losses."

The current wave of conflict began when Taliban-led Afghan forces initiated retaliatory strikes against Pakistani military sites on February 27, following Pakistan's military actions against militants in Afghan territory on February 21.

In response to Afghanistan's actions, Pakistan launched 'Operation Ghazab lil-Haq' (Righteous Fury), which it characterized as a reaction to what it termed "unprovoked firing" by Afghan forces across various border sectors.