❗️Pakistani forces strike Afghan border positions after deadly artillery fire in South Waziristan Pakistani security forces launched heavy retaliatory bombardments along the Afghan border today after cross-border shelling killed one civilian and wounded five others in South Waziristan, according to Anadolu Agency. Local administrative officials reported that mortar rounds fired from Afghan territory struck residential homes and commercial storefronts in the Angoor Adda border sector. The deputy commissioner for Lower South Waziristan stated on social media that Pakistani military units are "responding effectively and heavily" to the unprovoked escalation. The violent border flare-up highlights the deepening security crisis and mutual distrust governing relations between Islamabad and the Taliban administration in Kabul. Pakistani authorities have repeatedly accused neighboring governments of sheltering anti-state armed factions that launch cross-border raids, while Kabul denies these allegations and maintains that security enforcement is an internal domestic matter for Pakistan. Simultaneously, domestic counter-terrorism operations intensified across the country's southwest. In a separate military statement issued today, Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced that security forces killed nine militants during two separate intelligence-based raids in the Kachhi and Wadh districts of Balochistan province.