Overview
- Both governments reported fresh attacks on each other’s positions on Monday, extending the cross-border fighting to a fifth day without signs of a negotiated pause.
- Pakistan said its Operation Ghazab‑Lil‑Haq has killed 435 Afghan Taliban fighters, destroyed 188 posts, and hit ammunition depots in Khost and Jalalabad, figures not independently verified.
- Afghanistan’s defense ministry said it engaged Pakistani aircraft over Kabul and carried out strikes on Pakistani military sites including Rawalpindi’s Nur Khan Airbase, Quetta and Mohmand, claims Pakistan has not confirmed.
- Afghan officials said they repelled an attempted strike on Bagram with anti-aircraft guns and alleged civilian deaths across multiple provinces, while both sides’ casualty assertions remain unverified.
- Pakistan’s president defended ongoing strikes and urged Kabul to dismantle militant networks, and authorities announced daytime closures of select air routes in the Karachi and Lahore flight regions from March 3 to 31 for military activity.