The Taliban today accused Pakistan of bombing civilian areas in the provinces of Kunar and Paktika in eastern and southeastern Afghanistan in the middle of the night and claimed that three people died and four were injured.
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21/09/2026
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“ Last night, the invading Pakistani army bombed civilian areas of Afghanistan. In Kunar, one woman and two men died, and two women and two men were injured; they were all local residents,” the Taliban official spokesperson declared on social network X.
In a message posted on the social network, Zabihullah Mujahid promised that Kabul would give an adequate response to the aggression.
“ At 03:30 [mid-night in Lisbon], Pakistani jets carried out a bombing in the district of Nurgal, in the province of Kunar (east), killing three civilians and injuring four others,” said the news agency France-Presse (AFP) spokesperson for Kunar police, Farid Dehqan.
The Pakistani offensive appears three days after an attack on a police headquarters in Kohat, northern Pakistan, caused at least 31 deaths, including 16 police officers.
“ At least 31 people, including 16 police officers, have died and more than 100 have been injured so far in this attack (...) and suicide bombing”, said an unidentified police source to AFP.
An explosion took place on Friday afternoon inside the historic Kohat police complex, a city with about 220,000 inhabitants located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, with gunfire exchanges between attackers and police on site continuing to this day.
The complex serves as police district headquarters and houses the main offices of the Department of Combating Terrorism (CTD), the Special Brigade and several other police units.
The local group Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan, a faction linked to the Islamic fundamentalist movement Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed authorship of the attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the border with Afghanistan.
According to a police source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, after the explosion several attackers remained entrenched in the Special Brigade section of the Kohat Police Complex.
Pakistan attributed the increased attacks on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan border province to the growth of militant activity from Afghanistan, an accusation rejected by the Afghan Taliban authorities.
The differences between the two countries have exacerbated diplomatic tensions and armed clashes at the border, and Pakistan has carried out several bombings which, according to Islamabad, targeted armed groups in Afghan territory.
The Taliban Government in Kabul and the United Nations reported dozens of civilians killed in the latest Pakistani air raids in eastern Afghanistan in June this year.