Pakistan launches deadly strikes on eastern Afghanistan

A Pakistani bombardment killed three civilians, including a woman and a girl, and wounded four in the village of Patan in eastern Afghanistan, according to Taliban officials and the UN mission in Afghanistan. Islamabad said it struck 'terrorist hubs' based on intelligence and claimed 28 militants and suicide bombers were killed, a figure Kabul rejected as untrue.

The strikes follow Friday's attack on a police headquarters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that killed at least 31 people, claimed by a faction linked to the Pakistani Taliban. UNAMA said it has documented over 1,100 civilian deaths and injuries this year alone from cross-border violence, and the two governments' relationship has been tense since the Taliban retook power in 2021.

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