Pakistan Air Force bombed border areas of Afghanistan including Khost, South-eastern Afghanistan, Chowgaam in Shultan district in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan on Friday night in retaliation to a 'terror' attack on its convoy earlier in which seven Pak's seven Army Men were killed.
According to reports, Afghan women and children were killed in the air strikes.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) – the media wing of the Pakistani armed forces – had said Friday afternoon that terrorists ambushed a military convoy in Khyber-Pakhtunwala’s North Waziristan disctict, near the Af-Pak border.
The military initiated a “prompt response, and effectively engaged and killed four terrorists," it said.
However, later in the night, Pakistani military jets carried out simultaneous strikes in north-eastern Kunar and south-eastern Khost provinces of Afghanistan – in remote areas of Chogam and Passa Mela.
Khost is home to 1000s of displaced Waziristanis.