Pakistan bombed major Afghan cities, including Kabul, on Friday, as Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said the countries were in “open war” after months of escalating clashes. Afghan forces earlier attacked…

Islamabad accuses Afghanistan of failing to act against militant groups that carry out attacks in Pakistan, which the Taliban government denies. […] An Afghan official reported multiple civilians wounded near the Torkham border crossing, at a camp for people returning from Pakistan.

The groups in question are the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) and ISIS-K.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    This other article has some details. Note there is more to it than just this excerpt, I might be leaving out key information unintentionally while trying to find a source

    https://time.com/7381546/pakistan-afghanistan-taliban-war-strikes-attacks-border-clash-terrorism-explainer/

    Over the weekend, Pakistan carried out strikes on seven camps allegedly belonging to the Pakistani Taliban—also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)—and an Islamic State (ISIS)-affiliated group located in the Afghanistan provinces of Nangarhar and Paktika, according to Pakistan’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Kabul said the strikes had hit civilian homes and a religious school and killed at least 18 people. The airstrikes killed at least 13 civilians in Afghanistan, according to the U.N. mission in Afghanistan. Pakistan claimed that the airstrikes killed at least 80 militants.

    Islamabad has accused Kabul of hosting groups, including TTP, that have carried out recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan. The Taliban have publicly denied hosting TTP and other terrorist groups.

    Citing a series of suicide bombing attacks this month, including an attack on Feb. 6 that killed more than 30 people at a mosque in Islamabad, the information ministry said in a Feb. 21 statement that it had “conclusive evidence” that the acts were perpetrated by militants at the “behest of their Afghanistan-based leadership and handlers.” The ministry also asserted that the Taliban has “failed to undertake any substantive action against” terrorist groups based in Afghanistan.