Pakistan says it launches air strikes on Afghanistan after drone attacks巴基斯坦称，在无人机袭击后，对阿富汗发动了空袭。
Strikes carried out in southeastern province of Khost cause no casualties, governor’s office says.
Strikes carried out in southeastern province of Khost cause no casualties, governor’s office says.
Security personnel inspects the site of a strike in Gurbuz district, Afghanistan's Khost province [AFP]
Pakistan says it has carried out air strikes on 10 locations in Afghanistan used to store and launch drones, some of which were used in cross-border attacks.
The air strikes on Thursday were carried out as tensions grow between the former allies over attacks by armed groups in Pakistan, which triggered their worst fighting in years in February.
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Islamabad accuses Kabul of harbouring fighters who stage cross-border attacks, but Afghanistan’s Taliban government denies harbouring anti-Pakistani armed groups and says the attacks are Pakistan’s internal problem.
The air strikes were “deliberate, precise, calibrated, and proportionate, and strictly limited to identified military objectives directly linked to the attempted attacks against Pakistan”, Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar wrote on X.
He condemned a “deliberate and unlawful incursion into Pakistan by drones” on Wednesday.
“This constitutes a blatant violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and is a grave and unacceptable act of aggression,” he said.
Taliban officials denied that their government launched drones against Pakistan on Wednesday.
The Pakistani air strikes on Thursday were conducted in several areas of Khost province in southeastern Afghanistan, Mustaghfir Gurbaz, spokesperson for the Khost governor, said.
There were no casualties, he said.
A resident in Kandahar told the AFP news agency that an air strike hit the city in southern Afghanistan.
The resident said they heard a jet, then a large explosion, followed by a fire in the centre of Kandahar city, AFP reported.
An attack on a police facility in northwestern Pakistan last week that killed at least 21 people has reignited fighting between the countries after nearly three months of relative calm. A Pakistan Taliban faction claimed responsibility for the blast and subsequent gun battle .
On Monday, air strikes targeting three locations in northeastern Afghanistan killed three civilians in the Nurgal district of Kunar province, Afghan officials said. Islamabad said it killed 28 “terrorists”.
The escalation threatens mediation efforts by China, Turkiye, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to broker a lasting peace between the two neighbours.
Relations between the former allies have been strained since the fighting in February, the worst for years.
霍斯特省省长办公室称，在东南部霍斯特省进行的袭击没有造成人员伤亡。
安全人员正在阿富汗霍斯特省古尔布兹区检查袭击现场 [法新社]
巴基斯坦称已对阿富汗境内 10 个用于储存和发射无人机的地点进行了空袭，其中一些无人机曾被用于跨境袭击。
周四的空袭行动正值巴基斯坦武装团体发动袭击，导致这两个昔日盟友之间的紧张局势加剧之际。今年2月，这些袭击引发了两国多年来最严重的冲突。
巴基斯坦科哈特清真寺致命袭击事件后举行的三场葬礼名单（第一场）
阿富汗方面称，巴基斯坦空袭造成三人死亡（名单2/3）
巴基斯坦清真寺炸弹袭击致至少31人死亡（共3条，此为第3条）
伊斯兰堡指责喀布尔窝藏发动跨境袭击的武装分子，但阿富汗塔利班政府否认窝藏反巴基斯坦武装团体，并称这些袭击是巴基斯坦的内部问题。
巴基斯坦新闻部长阿塔乌拉·塔拉尔在X上写道，空袭是“经过深思熟虑、精确、校准和适度的，并且严格限于与企图袭击巴基斯坦直接相关的已确定的军事目标”。
周三，他谴责了“无人机蓄意非法入侵巴基斯坦的行为”。
他说：“这公然侵犯了巴基斯坦的主权和领土完整，是一种严重且不可接受的侵略行为。”
塔利班官员否认其政府周三对巴基斯坦发动了无人机袭击。
霍斯特省省长发言人穆斯塔格菲尔·古尔巴兹表示，巴基斯坦周四对阿富汗东南部霍斯特省的多个地区进行了空袭。
他说，没有人员伤亡。
坎大哈的一位居民告诉法新社，阿富汗南部城市坎大哈遭到空袭。
据法新社报道，一名居民称，他听到一架喷气式飞机的声音，然后听到一声巨响，接着坎大哈市中心发生火灾。
上周巴基斯坦西北部一处警察设施遭到袭击，造成至少21人死亡，这使得两国在经历了近三个月的相对平静后，再次爆发冲突。巴基斯坦塔利班的一个派别声称对爆炸和随后的枪战负责。
阿富汗官员称，周一，针对阿富汗东北部三个地点的空袭造成库纳尔省努尔加尔地区三名平民死亡。伊斯兰堡方面则表示，空袭中击毙了28名“恐怖分子”。
局势升级威胁到中国、土耳其、卡塔尔和沙特阿拉伯为促成两国之间持久和平所做的调解努力。
自2月份爆发多年来最严重的冲突以来，这两个昔日盟友之间的关系一直很紧张。