Alex Ritson

Pakistani warplanes also bombed the city of Kandahar, another stronghold of the country's Taliban government.

These people in Kabul described their experience.

As soon as I heard the sound of the aircraft, I got up.

I saw the plane descend and drop two bombs.

Then it went back up again.

It was around 2am.

All of us, including the women, ran downstairs.

Many people were injured by broken glass, and until late at night, people were being treated at the same clinic.

It was a very terrifying incident, and everyone is extremely distressed because of these problems.

Pakistan's military says it hit 22 Afghan military targets.

A spokesperson claimed nearly 300 Taliban officials and militants were killed while losses on the Pakistani side are reported to number a dozen.

Earlier on Thursday, Afghan forces attacked Pakistani border troops in what the Taliban government described as retaliation for previous deadly airstrikes.

Islamabad has repeatedly accused the Afghan Taliban of supporting militants accused of attacks in Pakistan.

The attacks are the most significant development in the ongoing tensions between the two countries, which had agreed to a ceasefire last October following a week of deadly clashes.

Here's the former Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations, Maliha Lodi.

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his country will respond to aggression with courage.

I spoke to Yama Baris in Kabul and began by asking him what the situation was like there.

Kabul last night experienced a chaotic night, I would say, and there were sounds of explosion, aircraft and also gunfires.

But by the dawn, it was calm, it is still calm.

But still, the spokesperson of Taliban appeared in a press conference and he said that during the day, at some points in the east of Afghanistan were bombed again by the Pakistani aircrafts.