Pakistan strikes Afghanistan as cross-border conflict escalates
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Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan on Thursday night, with the two governments giving conflicting accounts of the casualties and targets.
Afghan officials said at least nine women and children were killed and 11 people were wounded. Pakistan said its strikes killed 22 militants and destroyed weapons and ammunition depots.
The attacks followed renewed fighting that began in mid-September after assaults on Pakistani security forces. On September 18, an attack on a police compound in Kohat, in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killed 31 people and injured more than 100. A splinter group of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, claimed responsibility.
Pakistan accuses Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government of sheltering the TTP, an independent militant organization that fights the Pakistani state and has close ideological and personal ties to the Afghan Taliban. Afghanistan denies providing the group with a safe haven.
Pakistan has repeatedly urged the Taliban authorities to act against the TTP. The Afghan Taliban returned to power in 2021 after receiving support from Pakistan during its insurgency, but relations between the neighbors have since deteriorated amid militant attacks, border clashes and Pakistani airstrikes.
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