Kabul today threatened Islamabad with “uncontrollable consequences” for the Pakistani attacks that killed eight civilians, women and children in two Afghan provinces close to the common border.
Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced that “Pakistani planes bombed civilian homes (…) in Paktika Province (…) killing six people” and “in Khost Province (…) two women were killed.”
The official spokesman added that Afghanistan “strongly condemns these attacks,” denouncing the “violation of his country's sovereignty.”
“These attacks may have consequences that Pakistan will not be able to control. (…) The people of Pakistan and the new civilian government must not allow some generals to pursue wrong policies that harm the relations of the two neighboring Islamic countries with such impudent actions.”
Since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in 2021, border tensions between the two countries have increased.
Pakistan claims that armed groups, such as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, are carrying out planned attacks from Afghan territory.
These attacks come two days after the killing of seven soldiers in northwestern Pakistan, in the North Waziristan region near the border with Afghanistan.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari attributed this attack to “terrorists,” vowing that Islamabad would respond “firmly” and “regardless of the perpetrator of the crime and the state.”
The Afghan government has always denied harboring foreign armed groups and stressed that it will not allow anyone to use Afghan territory to launch attacks against its neighbors.
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