Pakistan carried out airstrikes inside Afghanistan. A few hours later, the ruling Taliban government responded to their attack. There is tension between the two neighboring countries over the retaliatory attack. However, the question of why Pakistan carried out this air strike inside Afghanistan has naturally arisen.
Pakistan claims that the attack was carried out targeting armed groups hiding in the border area. Sources in Pakistan's military and foreign ministries told Al Jazeera that Pakistani forces carried out retaliatory strikes on Monday targeting the hideouts of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or Pakistani Taliban commanders. Because this organization is conducting and supporting terrorist activities inside Pakistan from across the border. Pakistan government did not say anything more.

However, last Saturday (March 16) 7 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a military checkpoint in the North Waziristan district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bordering Afghanistan. The newly formed terror group Jaish-e-Fursan-e-Muhammad claimed responsibility for the attack. The organization is headed by Pakistani Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadur. Security analysts say the attack is linked to Monday's attack in Pakistan.
Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said that armed groups are using Afghan soil to carry out terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Most of the terrorism against us is being directed from Afghanistan.

However, the Afghan Taliban government has been repeatedly denying such an allegation of Islamabad. They say Pakistani warplanes have attacked civilian homes in Paktika and Khost provinces. At least eight people were killed in this attack. Among them are five women and three children.
Later, the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan informed that on Monday, firing was fired at Pakistan's targets across the border. However, Islamabad has not commented on this yet.
Since the Taliban government came to power in 2021, relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been deteriorating. Tensions between the two Muslim neighbors continued to rise. In April 2022, Kabul reported that 47 people were killed in a Pakistani airstrike in the eastern part of the country.