Pak Air Strikes Kill 46 in Afghanistan

Forty-six people have been killed in a series of airstrikes by Pakistan on four hideouts of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, known by the acronym TTP, in eastern Afghanistan.

The Taliban government reacted by claiming that mostly women and children had died in the aerial onslaught. Later in the day, Afghanistan's foreign office said it had summoned Pakistan's head of mission in Kabul to lodge a formal protest over the strikes.

While no official statement was issued by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs or military media wing, al Jazeera cited sources as saying that the attacks took place in the Barmal district of Afghanistan, near Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.