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Pakistan released brand-new airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Paktika province simply hours after Islamabad and Kabul extended their 48-hour ceasefire.
Pakistan and Afghanistan consented to a momentary 48-hour ceasefire beginning 6 pm on Wednesday. (AFP File)
Pakistan performed fresh airstrikes in a number of districts of Afghanistan’s Paktika province hours after Islamabad
and Kabul extended their 48-hour ceasefire.
Pakistani military forces targeted suburbs in the Argun and Barmal districts of Paktika province, which lies along the Durand Line. No casualties have actually been validated so far.
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Afghanistan’s Taliban cautioned Islamabad that Kabul will strike back. “Pakistan has actually broken the ceasefire and bombed 3 places in Paktika. Afghanistan will strike back,” a senior Taliban official said.
This escalation comes despite an extended temporary ceasefire between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which was meant to remain in place until the conclusion of the Doha negotiations—an effort aimed at easing border tensions.
Earlier this week, Pakistan carried out an airstrike on the Afghan border province of Kandahar and hit the town of Spin Boldak, officials in both countries said.
Pakistani security officials said the airstrike had targeted a brigade of Afghan Taliban troops and that dozens were killed, without corroborating the claim.
Enayatullah Khowarazmi, Afghanistan’s defence ministry spokesperson, said residential areas of Spin Boldak were hit.
Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Clashes
The deadly clashes between the countries have spiked tensions and left hundreds of people stranded. The fighting between the two countries began on the night of October 11, when Afghan forces struck multiple Pakistani military posts.
As per media reports, Afghan officials claimed to have killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in response to what they said were repeated violations of Afghan territory and airspace.
Pakistan’s military said that it lost 23 soldiers and killed more than 200 “Taliban and affiliated terrorists” throughout vindictive fire along the border.
Stress have actually been high considering that recently when Afghanistan’s Taliban federal government implicated Pakistan of performing airstrikes in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and in a market in eastern Afghanistan.
Pakistan had actually formerly introduced strikes inside Afghanistan, targeting what it stated were militant hideouts.
Pakistan has actually long implicated Kabul of safeguarding members of the prohibited Pakistani Taliban, referred to as Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which Islamabad blames for lethal attacks inside the nation.
Kabul rejects the claims, stating it does not enable its area to be utilized versus other countries.
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