Mortar and rocket attacks launched by Pakistan against Afghanistan killed four people yesterday and wounded 70 more, the Taliban government said, as fighting between the countries erupted again and threatened to derail fragile peace talks.
Pakistan’s government dismissed the reports as ‘continuous propaganda’.
About 30 students, women and children were among those wounded in the attacks, which targeted homes and the Syed Jamaluddin Afghani University in Kunar province’s Asadabad, the Taliban’s deputy spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat said.
“We strongly condemn these attacks by the Pakistani military regime, in which ordinary people, academic, and educational institutions were targeted, and declare them unforgivable war crimes,” he said in a post on X.
Pakistan’s information ministry in a post on X said the Afghan government’s allegations were false. “Whenever and wherever Pakistan strikes the Afghan-based terror infrastructure, it will be as per previous actions, well declared, fully owned and backed by precise evidence of targeting terror support infrastructure,” it said.
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