AFGHAN TALIBAN SAYS STRIKES KILLED CIVILIANS
Afghan government spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat said the strikes had killed 38 civilians and injured 163, including women and children.
He said the bulk of the casualties stemmed from Pakistani jets bombing a home in Paktia province, killing 28 and injuring 158.
Residents were rushing to help the wounded when there was a second strike on the same area, said Khalid Ahmad Sajad, deputy head of the affected district, Samkani.
“Everyone was asleep when the aircraft came and began attacking this house. Inside the house were children, women, men, and elderly people,” resident Mata Khan said.
Afghanistan’s Deputy Information Minister Mohajer Farahi said in a statement that the “attack will certainly be avenged at the appropriate time”.
Tarar said Pakistan was responding to “recent multiple terrorist incidents”, including Saturday’s bomb and gun attack claimed by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar on a Sindh Rangers facility in the southern city of Karachi that killed three of the paramilitary troops and injured four.
“Security forces precisely struck terrorist camps and safe havens,” he said in a message on X.
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