Pakistan forces kill 29 militants in border operation, Kabul says dozens dead, injured

June 29 (Reuters) - Pakistan's security forces carried out ground and air operations along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Sunday, killing at least 29 militants, while the Afghan Taliban said dozens had been killed in air strikes in its border areas.

• Four fighters linked to Jamaat-ul-Ahrar were killed in the ground attacks, Pakistan Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on X early on Monday. The group is a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.

• Air strikes on three targets in Paktia, Paktika and Kunar killed 25 militants while "large quantities of weapons and ammunition" were destroyed, he added.

• Dozens were killed and injured in air strikes by Pakistan, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said in a Monday post on X.

• "The attacks resulted in the deaths and injuries of dozens of civilians, including women and children. We strongly condemn this cowardly act of aggression and consider it a crime and an act of brutality," Zabiullah said.

• Pakistan was responding to "recent multiple terrorist incidents," Tarar said in his post.

• A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar bomb and gun attack on a Sindh Rangers facility in Karachi killed three paramilitary troops and injured four, Pakistan's military said on Saturday.

• Islamabad accuses Kabul of harbouring militants that it says plot attacks in Pakistan. The Afghan Taliban denies the allegations and says militancy is Pakistan's ​internal problem.

(Reporting by Bipasha Dey in Bengaluru and Shilpa Jamkhandikar in Mumbai; Editing by Chris Reese and Kate Mayberry)