00:00Afghanistan's Taliban says that Pakistani forces carried out overnight
00:15airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan killing 10 civilians including nine
00:20children and one woman. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid posted on X that
00:26Pakistani aircraft bombed the home of a local civilian Waliyat Khan in the
00:31Mughalgai area of Gurbuz district in Coast Province shortly after midnight. He
00:36said the house was completely destroyed with five boys four girls and one woman
00:41killed. Mujahid called the attack a violation of Afghanistan's sovereignty and
00:48warned that the Taliban government would respond at the right time if such strikes
00:53continue. Taliban officials say this marks one of the deadliest single incidents
00:58involving civilians since the latest round of cross-border tensions began. According
01:03to the Taliban the coast strike was part of a wider wave of Pakistani attacks that
01:09also hit Kunar and Paktika provinces along the border injuring at least four other
01:14civilians. The airstrikes came just hours after a suicide bombing and gun attack on
01:20Pakistan's frontier constabulary headquarters in Peshawah's Sadar area which killed at
01:26least three personnel and wounded others. Pakistani officials say they are facing a
01:31surge in attacks blamed on the Tariq A Taliban Pakistan or TTP and accused the
01:38Afghan Taliban of allowing TTP factions to operate from Afghan territory. Although
01:44Islamabad has not publicly detailed this specific operation, Pakistani security sources
01:49told regional media the strikes were aimed at TTP hideouts and foreign-sponsored
01:55terrorists not civilians. Kabul rejects that claim insisting the target was a
02:01private home and that no militants were present. The latest strikes come after
02:06months of tit-for-tat attacks and a fragile Qatar and Turkey brokered ceasefire
02:11that followed deadly clashes along the border in October which left dozens of
02:16fighters dead on both sides. At the heart of the dispute is the TTP question. Pakistan
02:23insists that the Afghan Taliban are failing to rein in and in some cases
02:27protecting TTP factions that plan and launch attacks across the border. The
02:33Taliban counter that Pakistan's security problems are internal matters rooted in
02:39its own policies and long history of supporting jihadist groups. Kabul accuses
02:44Islamabad of routinely violating Afghan airspace and of using cross-border
02:49airstrikes to project strength amid domestic instability. The killing of nine
02:55children and a woman in coast has sparked anger inside Afghanistan and renewed calls
03:00for accountability. Local communities already traumatized by decades of war now
03:06face the prospect of being caught between a state-to-state confrontation and a
03:10non-state insurgency. Unless there is a credible mechanism to investigate civilian
03:16casualties and a serious framework to address Pakistan's TTP concerns and the
03:21Taliban's sovereignty demands, analysts expect more airstrikes, more denials and more Afghan
03:28civilians caught in the middle.
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