Printed On 22 Feb 2026
Pakistan says it has launched strikes on armed teams in Afghanistan after blaming latest suicide bombings, together with assaults in the course of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, on fighters it says are working from its neighbour’s territory.
Kabul has repeatedly denied permitting armed teams to make use of Afghan territory to stage assaults in Pakistan.
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence on Sunday stated “dozens of harmless civilians, together with ladies and youngsters, have been martyred and wounded” when strikes hit a college and houses within the jap provinces of Nangarhar and Paktika.
Nangarhar police advised the AFP information company the bombardment began about midnight (19:30 GMT on Saturday) and hit three districts.
“Civilians have been killed. In a single home, there have been 23 members of the family. 5 wounded folks have been taken out,” police spokesperson Sayed Tayeeb Hammad stated.
The Afghan Defence Ministry stated it would “ship an applicable and calculated response” to the Pakistani strikes.
The 2 nations have been locked in an more and more bitter dispute for the reason that Taliban authorities retook management of Afghanistan in 2021.
Pakistani army motion killed 70 Afghan civilians from October to December, in keeping with the United Nations mission in Afghanistan.
A number of rounds of negotiations adopted an preliminary ceasefire brokered by Qatar and Turkiye, however they’ve failed to provide an enduring settlement.
Saudi Arabia intervened this month, mediating the discharge of three Pakistani troopers captured by Afghanistan in October.
The deteriorating relationship has had repercussions for folks in each nations with the land border largely closed for months.
