President Droupadi Murmu on Friday flew a 25-minute sortie as co-pilot in India`s indigenously built Light Combat Helicopter `Prachand` near the India-Pakistan border in Jaisalmer, becoming the first Indian President to fly in an attack helicopter. (Pics/PTI)

Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces early Friday, Afghanistan`s government spokesman said, hours after Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack on Pakistan in the latest escalation of violence between the volatile neighbours that made a Qatar-mediated ceasefire appear increasingly shaky. (Pics/AFP)