Islamabad violated Afghan airspace in launching the in a single day assaults, a Taliban spokesperson has alleged
Hostilities flared up on the Afghan-Pakistan border in a single day as strikes by the Pakistani navy killed 13 civilians, Afghan officers have mentioned.
The strikes passed off within the Afghan border provinces of Kunar, Khost, and Paktika, in response to Zabihullah Mujahid, a authorities spokesman. It marks the deadliest episode in weeks, following a interval of relative calm.
The Pakistani bombing claimed the lives of “11 kids, one girl, and one aged man,” Mujahid posted on X. Fourteen others had been injured, he mentioned, together with girls and kids.
An AFP report quoting an unidentified official in Khost mentioned a strike on a home in Spera district killed 9 and wounded 11. Residents of a neighboring province mentioned a separate assault claimed three civilians in Barmal district. The deceased had been all kids, a resident mentioned.
Pakistan has accused Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities of sheltering armed teams that conduct cross-border raids and terrorist assaults, together with the bombing of a mosque in Islamabad in February thatkilled greater than 30 individuals.Afghanistan has, in flip, accused Pakistan of “unforgivable warfare crimes.” Low-intensity clashes have continued on the Afghan-Pakistan border regardless of the 2 nations agreeing to a truce in late March.
Islamabad has repeatedly mentioned its strikes in Afghanistan are aimed toward insurgents finishing up assaults on its territory and that it doesn’t goal civilians.
However a United Nations report revealed final month put the dying toll of Afghan civilians at 372 within the first three months of this yr. It mentioned 397 individuals have been wounded within the battle.
Pakistan partly attributes the pressure in its relationship with Kabul to the latter’s growing engagement with its longtime rival, India.
width=”560″
peak=”315″
src=”https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/recordsdata/2026.06/6a29783285f54070eb3698ad.mp4″ frameborder=”0″
>
(RT.com)
