Police in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, said on Friday that four people were killed in a Pakistani strike as tensions between the neighbouring states continue to escalate.
Police spokesman Khalid Zadran said in a post on X that a Pakistani bombardment hit homes in the capital, “leaving four people…dead and 15 others injured.” Apart from this, the Afghan authorities accused Pakistan’s military regime of targeting various areas of the Alisher–Terezai district of Khost province, near the Hypothetical Durand Line, with artillery fire.
“Since its establishment, Pakistan has maintained a hostile approach toward its neighbouring countries. Over the past 78 years, it has not maintained good relations with its neighbours and, in many cases, has fought at the direction of others. Pakistan’s domestic and foreign policies are not independent. Although war is not a solution, Pakistan does not seem to take this principle into account,
On Thursday, Pakistan’s information minister claimed that the number of casualties from Pakistan’s attacks on Afghanistan had reached 641. The Ministry of Defence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, on the other hand, has described Pakistan’s claims regarding Afghan casualties as incorrect and unfounded.
Afghanistan calls out Pakistan
According to the Afghan ministry, the Pakistani side is attempting to conceal the heavy losses and casualties it claims were inflicted by the Taliban forces by publishing false reports.
“In attacks by Afghan security forces and the mujahideen, hundreds of Pakistani soldiers were killed, and hundreds more were wounded. Dozens of their posts and bases were also destroyed. Meanwhile, the mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate suffered only limited casualties, and the claims made by Pakistan’s information minister are merely propaganda and far from the truth,” Sediqullah Nusrat, deputy spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
