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Pakistani air strikes on Afghanistan have killed at least four people, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban government said, promising to deliver an “appropriate response”.

Pakistan said on Thursday it carried out air strikes on 10 locations in Afghanistan used to store and launch drones, some of which were used in cross-border attacks.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the air strikes targeted Kandahar, Paktia and Khost provinces.

A resident in Kandahar city told the AFP news agency that an air strike hit the city in southern Afghanistan. The resident said they heard a jet, then a large explosion, followed by a fire in the centre of Kandahar city, AFP reported.

Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said air strikes were “deliberate, precise, calibrated, and proportionate, and strictly limited to identified military objectives directly linked to the attempted attacks against Pakistan”.

He condemned a “deliberate and unlawful incursion into Pakistan by drones” on Wednesday.

“This constitutes a blatant violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and is a grave and unacceptable act of aggression,” he said.

Taliban officials denied that their government launched drones against Pakistan on Wednesday.

The air raids on Thursday were carried out as tensions grow between the former allies over attacks by armed groups in Pakistan, which triggered their worst fighting in years in February.

Islamabad accuses Kabul of harbouring fighters who stage cross-border attacks, but Afghanistan’s Taliban government denies harbouring anti-Pakistani armed groups and says the attacks are Pakistan’s internal problem.

An attack on a police facility in northwestern Pakistan last week that killed at least 21 people has reignited ⁠fighting between the countries after nearly three months of ⁠relative calm. A Pakistan Taliban faction claimed responsibility for the blast and subsequent gun battle.

On Monday, air raids targeting three locations in northeastern Afghanistan killed three civilians in the Nurgal district of Kunar province, Afghan officials said. Islamabad said it killed 28 “terrorists”.

The escalation threatens mediation efforts by China, Turkiye, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to broker a lasting peace between the two neighbours.

Relations between the former allies have been strained since the fighting in February, the worst for years.

Emmamay10:
The heavenly angels should just blow the whistle, so that the crisis in this world will just end once and for all.

DiamondsAreFore:
I was watching the UN General Assembly and I saw these two countries walk out as Bibi Netanyahu was addressing the Assembly along with all other muslim countries and a handful of liberal woke European countries.

The truth is, they need a common enemy to be united against or they will destroy themselves.

That has been their history right from the beginning.

If you look at the very earliest history of their religion, 3 out of the first 4 Caliphs or successors to their prophet were assassinated by their fellow believers.

One of the sons a a caliph called Husain was actually beheaded and his head was paraded as a trophy on the streets for hours.

Emmamay10:
The heavenly angels should just blow the whistle, so that the crisis in this world will just end once and for all.

DiamondsAreFore:
I was watching the UN General Assembly and I saw these two countries walk out as Bibi Netanyahu was addressing the Assembly along with all other muslim countries and a handful of liberal woke European countries.

The truth is, they need a common enemy to be united against or they will destroy themselves.

That has been their history right from the beginning.

If you look at the very earliest history of their religion, 3 out of the first 4 Caliphs or successors to their prophet were assassinated by their fellow believers.

One of the sons a a caliph called Husain was actually beheaded and his head was paraded as a trophy on the streets for hours.

Marvieduke:
And the retaliation of the Afghanistan would be very deadly....

SatanIsAllah:
It was the beheading of Husain who was Muhammad's grandson that led to the split between sunni and shia muslims.

DiamondsAreFore:
I was watching the UN General Assembly and I saw these two countries walk out as Bibi Netanyahu was addressing the Assembly along with all other muslim countries and a handful of liberal woke European countries.

The truth is, they need a common enemy to be united against or they will destroy themselves.

That has been their history right from the beginning.

If you look at the very earliest history of their religion, 3 out of the first 4 Caliphs or successors to their prophet were assassinated by their fellow believers.

One of the sons a a caliph called Husain was actually beheaded and his head was paraded as a trophy on the streets for hours.

SatanIsAllah:
It was the beheading of Husain who was Muhammad's grandson that led to the split between sunni and Shia Muslims.

NGArmyTerrorist:
Most of these strikes may come from either US or Israel just to frame a particular country

NGArmyTerrorist:
Most of these strikes may come from either US or Israel just to frame a particular country