Kushagra Bansal – Mumbai Uncensored, 19th April 2022
Pakistan raided and bombed Afghan provinces of Kunar and Khost, women and children killed.
According to an official and a resident, Pakistani armed forces fired rockets along the border in a pre-dawn attack in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, killing at least five children and a woman.
“In Pakistani rocket assaults in Shelton district of Kunar, five children and a mother were murdered, and a man was wounded,” provincial director of information Najibullah Hassan Abdaal told AFP. “Only civilian houses were attacked, and there were casualties,” he added, without providing any other information.
Border tensions between the neighbors have grown since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan last year, with Pakistan accusing armed groups of carrying out assaults from Afghan land.
The Taliban denies harboring Pakistani armed militants, but they are enraged by a fence being built by Islamabad along their 2,700-kilometer (1,600-mile) border known as the Durand line, which was drawn up during colonial times.
At least seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in an ambush near the Afghan border on Thursday by an armed group. According to a military statement, a Pakistani military convoy was ambushed near the Afghan border in a former stronghold of the Pakistan Taliban, known as the TTP. The ambush resulted in a fierce shoot-out in which seven troops and four members of the armed organization were killed.
“The Pakistan Army is determined to eliminate the threat of terrorism,” the statement continued, “and such sacrifices by our gallant warriors enhance our commitment.”
Since January, 128 armed fighters have been slain in Pakistan’s border region with Afghanistan, according to the Pakistani military. During the same time span, nearly 100 soldiers were slain in similar attacks, according to the military.
North Waziristan, nicknamed the “heartland of militancy” in the past, is one of Pakistan’s seven former semi-autonomous tribal districts where the army has been fighting the Pakistan Taliban since 2014.
