Taliban accuses Pakistan of killing 10 including nine children in strikes on Afghanistan

"Pakistan strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan have killed 10 people among them nine children a Taliban government spokesperson has said, a day after a suicide attack on a security compound in Pakistan's Peshawar city. The Pakistani invading forces bombed the house of a local civilian resident ... As a result, nine children (five boys and four girls) and one woman were martyred in Khost province, Zabihullah Mujahid said on X. Air strikes targeting the border regions of Kunar and Paktika wounded another four civilians, he added."

"The bombardment follows a suicide attack that targeted the headquarters of Pakistan's paramilitary Federal Constabulary force in Peshawar, killing three officers and wounding 11 others. No group has claimed responsibility, but state broadcaster PTV reported the attackers were Afghan nationals and Pakistan's president Asif Zardari blamed the foreign-backed Fitna al-Khawarij Islamabad's term for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants it accuses of operating from Afghan soil."

Cross-border strikes by Pakistani forces in Afghanistan killed 10 people, including nine children, when a house in Khost province was bombed; air strikes in Kunar and Paktika wounded four civilians. The bombardment followed a suicide attack on the Federal Constabulary headquarters in Peshawar that killed three officers and wounded 11. State broadcaster PTV reported the Peshawar attackers as Afghan nationals, and Pakistan's president blamed the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). A separate suicide blast in Islamabad killed 12 and was claimed by a Pakistan Taliban faction. October border clashes killed about 70 and ceasefire talks have not resolved demands to curb TTP sanctuaries.

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