Pakistan Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills 10 Civilians, Claims Taliban

Afghan authorities on Tuesday accused Pakistani forces of carrying out an airstrike in southeastern Khost province that killed at least nine children and a woman, sharply escalating tensions as a fragile ceasefire between the neighbours hangs in the balance.Taliban administration spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the strike hit a civilian home in Khost’s Gurbuz district around midnight (19:30 GMT).“The Pakistani invading forces bombed the house of a local civilian resident, Waliat Khan, son of Qazi Mir,” Mujahid wrote on X. “As a result, nine children [five boys and four girls] and one woman were martyred, and his house was destroyed.”Mujahid added that additional airstrikes in northeastern Kunar and eastern Paktika provinces left at least four civilians wounded. There was no immediate response from Pakistan.The incident comes just a day after a suicide bombing targeted the headquarters of Pakistan’s paramilitary Federal Constabulary in Peshawar. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan ...

• 25 Nov 2025