Alex Ritson

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.

And also, there are some reports of minor clashes along the Durand line.

What are the people you're talking to saying?

Well, the people of Afghanistan, if you speak to them in the capital Kabul or in the provinces, they are concerned about what's happening.

They also have some concern that what is to come.

But stronger than that concern, you can see anger and fury everywhere.

And they believe that the war will not take them anywhere.

They cannot find any solution by force.

And they think the best way out is to sit on the table and discuss the problems and find a way out.

Pakistan says the Afghan Taliban are supporting the Pakistani Taliban.

Is that true?

Well, that's a claim which the Pakistani officials reiterate whenever there is an incident in Pakistan.