Pakistan carries out deadly airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan
Afghan residents look at the remains of a building damaged in a Pakistani airstrike at a village in Tsamkani district of Afghanistan's Paktia province on June 29, 2026.(AFP)
Pakistan carried out airstrikes overnight in eastern Afghanistan, Islamabad said on June 29, adding its operations had targeted militants as the Afghan government reported dozens of civilian casualties.
Pakistan's information minister said the operations killed 25 militants and were aimed at a group that it blames for a deadly weekend attack in Karachi, though Afghan authorities have repeatedly denied their territory harbours militants.
The strikes are the latest flare-up of violence between the two countries whose relationship has been fraught since 2021, when the Taliban government took power, and follow a weeks-long war that erupted in February.
