ISLAMABAD:The confrontation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border intensified dramatically overnight, as security sources said that the Pakistan Air Force jets had started carrying out strikes, destroying what they described as a major ammunition depot in the Nangarhar province. As many as 58 personnel of the Afghan Taliban regime were killed in retaliatory action along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border, while over 100 others were wounded, security sources said on Friday, following unprovoked cross-border attacks on Pakistani positions.The security forces launched operation Ghazab-lil-haqq after the Taliban regime’s unprovoked action along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border, the security sources added. Security sources said 12 Afghan border posts had been completely destroyed, while Pakistani forces had taken control of five others and hoisted the national flag on them during the latest phase of operations.Security sources said that three Afghan battalions and a sector headquarters across the border were completely destroyed in the latest phase of the operation.The sources said that more than 30 tanks, artillery guns and armoured personnel carriers (APCs) were also destroyed.Security sources said Pakistani forces destroyed the Dawood post of the Afghan Taliban.Along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, several Taliban positions at the Kharlachi terminal, a key Pak-Afghan border crossing in the Kurram district, were also hit, according to officials. In a statement on the latest situation along the Pak-Afghan frontier, Federal Minister for Information Attaullah Tarar said the Afghan Taliban regime initiated hostilities and then attempted to deflect attention through “false and baseless propaganda” on social media.