Eight people, all women and children, were killed on Monday in 'reckless' air strikes by the Pakistan military in the border regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban government's spokesman said.
Eight people, all women and children, were killed on Monday in "reckless" air strikes by the Pakistan military in the border regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban government's spokesman said.Eight people, all women and children, were killed on Monday in “reckless” air strikes by the Pakistan military in the border regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban government’s spokesman said.
The Taliban government “strongly condemns these attacks and calls this reckless action a violation of Afghanistan’s sovereignty”, he said in the statement.A local government official in Pakistan’s border regions, who asked not to be named, told AFP that the military carried out the strikes in response to Afghan forces “targeting Pakistani territory”.
“Pakistan has decided that whoever will enter our borders, homes or country and commit terror, we will respond to them strongly, regardless of who it is or from which country,” he said while attending the funeral prayers of the soldiers, which included a lieutenant colonel.Areas along the border have long been a stronghold for militant groups such as Pakistan’s home-grown Taliban group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan , which operates across the porous frontier with Afghanistan.
However, a TTP source who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to media said the strikes in Paktika and Khost left at least nine people dead. Terrorism in Kaduna State took another turn on Sunday after bandits kidnapped 87 people in a fresh wave of attacks. The latest attack was said to have taken place in Kajuru-Station community in the Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
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