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The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Monday that it had confirmed at least 28 civilians had been killed and 49 others injured in Pakistan’s air strikes on Afghanistan.
On Sunday evening, June 28, Pakistan organized a military operation in Paktia, Paktika, and Kunar in Afghanistan.
While Pakistan stated that it targeted militant hideouts, Afghanistan claimed the strikes killed dozens of civilians.
The community leader in Paktika province, Amin Mangal, said a Pakistani strike on a house killed six people, and they were very poor, helpless people who were living with the help of charity, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The tension has risen between the two countries since 2021, when the Taliban governmentally took power in Kabul and followed the war for a few weeks in February-March this year.
Information Minister of Pakistan, Attaullah Tarar, said the operations were aimed at a group that it blames for a weekend assault in Karachi, although Afghan authorities have denied that their territory hosts the attackers.
On one hand, Tarar mentioned 29 militants that it had disabled; on the other hand, Afghanistan’s Deputy Spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat said 36 civilians had lost their lives, and 163 civilians were wounded.
While Pakistan is mediating between the United States and Iran to end their war in the Middle East, including China and several countries, it has failed to produce a long-term solution between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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