Airstrikes that Afghanistan’s Taliban government blamed on Pakistan hit two eastern provinces late Wednesday, killing at least three people, wounding seven and damaging homes, officials and witnesses said Thursday.
Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry condemned the strikes in Nangarhar and Khost as a “provocative act” and summoned Pakistan’s ambassador in Kabul.
The Defense Ministry also denounced the assault, warning on X that “such barbaric and brutal actions benefit neither side, but deepen divisions between two Muslim nations and fuel hatred. These irresponsible activities will have consequences.”
Neither the Pakistani government nor the military commented on the alleged strikes.
Kabul previously accused Pakistan of launching airstrikes in Afghanistan against suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, a group banned in Pakistan and blamed for some of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks.
