New Delhi [India], February 24 (ANI): Amnesty Worldwide South Asia has expressed deep concern over stories of civilian casualties following Pakistan airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on February 21 and 22, calling for a ‘thorough, impartial, and neutral investigation’ into the alleged hurt.
In a put up on X by Amnesty Worldwide South Asia, the organisation stated it was ‘deeply involved by the stories of civilian casualties attributable to Pakistan’s airstrike in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on 21 and 22 February.’
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‘These stories of hurt to civilians should be subjected to an intensive, impartial, and neutral investigation,’ Amnesty stated.
The organisation famous, ‘This isn’t the primary time civilians have borne the brunt of the usage of pressure. Beforehand, the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan attributed 70 civilians killed and 478 others wounded to the Pakistan army forces between October and December 2025, when border tensions and clashes intensified between the Afghanistan Taliban forces and the Pakistan Navy.’
In response to UNAMA, the casualties occurred as border tensions and confrontations elevated between Afghanistan’s Taliban forces and the Pakistan army.
Amnesty Worldwide reiterated its attraction to all events concerned within the hostilities to take vital steps to stop civilian hurt, stressing their obligations below worldwide regulation.
Greater than 80 individuals have been killed in Pakistan’s airstrikes on the seven places in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar, Paktika and Khost provinces, Geo Information reported on Monday, citing Islamabad’s safety sources.
Pakistan has performed a number of strikes within the area in response to current suicide assaults for which they’ve blamed Afghanistan.
The focused places reportedly included ‘New Centre No. 1 and New Centre No. 2 in Nangarhar, Khwariji Maulvi Abbas Centre in Khost, Khwariji Islam Centre and Khwariji Ibrahim Centre in Nangarhar, and Khwariji Mullah Rahbar and Khwariji Mukhlis Yar in Paktika.’
Earlier, Pakistan’s State Minister for Inside, Talal Chaudhry, stated practically 70 militants had been ‘neutralised’ within the cross-border operation.
The federal government acknowledged that the strikes focused camps belonging to Fitna al-Khawarij, a time period utilized by Pakistani authorities for the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, its associates and Islamic State – Khorasan Province (Daesh-Khorasan).
Talking to Geo Information programme ‘Geo Pakistan,’ Chaudhry alleged that Afghanistan had change into a supply of cross-border militancy. He stated Pakistan was taking vital measures to safeguard its residents and highlighted that round 70,000 intelligence-based operations had been performed domestically, leading to a number of arrests.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Info and Broadcasting described the strikes as ‘exact and correct,’ calling them a retaliatory response to current suicide bombings in Islamabad, Bajaur and Bannu. Islamabad claimed that the assaults have been orchestrated by handlers based mostly in Afghanistan and linked to the TTP and Daesh parts.
The strikes reportedly focused hideouts within the Barmal space of Paktika province, Khogyani district of Nangarhar province, in addition to Ghani Khel, Behsud and Argoon areas.
Chaudhry additionally referred to the 2020 Doha Settlement, stating that the Afghan Taliban had pledged to not permit Afghan soil for use for terrorism. He alleged that Kabul’s interim administration had didn’t curb militant exercise.
He added that Pakistan had made diplomatic and military-level efforts to deal with its safety issues and urged political events to unite towards terrorism.
The most recent strikes observe a surge in violence in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces. Tensions between Islamabad and Kabul have escalated in recent times, significantly because the Taliban returned to energy in Afghanistan in 2021. (ANI)
