At least eight people were killed in Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan on Monday evening, according to a statement by the radical Islamic Taliban. A Taliban spokesman said Pakistani fighter jets attacked civilian homes in the border provinces of Khost and Paktika around 3 a.m. (Sunday, 11 p.m. CET). Three children were among the dead. The Taliban spoke of an “attack on the sovereignty of Afghanistan”.
Since the Islamic Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, tensions with neighboring country Pakistan have increased. The government in Islamabad accuses militant groups from Afghanistan of carrying out armed attacks in Pakistan.
Pakistani military post attacked earlier
A few days ago, five members of the security forces were killed in a suicide attack on a military post in northwestern Pakistan. “The terrorists stormed the post in a vehicle packed with explosives,” the Pakistani army said on Saturday. The building partially collapsed. Then several suicide bombers attacked. Residents of Waziristan, near the border with Afghanistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told Reuters that an explosion shook doors and shattered windows as the attack began.
Islamists want to overthrow the government of Pakistan
Many of the attacks in Pakistan are attributed to the Pakistani Taliban (TTP). The government in Islamabad accuses Afghanistan of using the neighboring country as a starting point for the attacks. The Taliban ruling Afghanistan denies this. The TTP aims to overthrow the government and rule Pakistan according to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. The Islamists have killed thousands of soldiers, police and civilians in bombings and suicide bombings in recent years.
Source: Krone
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