Kabul: Afghanistan’s Taliban summoned Pakistan’s ambassador to express concern to the Pakistan government over the recent airstrikes in various parts of Afghanistan’s Khost and Kunar provinces, in which five children and a woman lost their lives.
According to the country’s foreign ministry, acting Afghan foreign affairs minister Amir Khan Muttaki and acting deputy defense minister Alhaj Mullah Shirin Akhund were present during the session.
It tweeted, “Pakistan Ambassador in Kabul summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today. Along with IEA Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaki, the session was also attended by Deputy Defense Minister Alhaj Mullah Shirin Akhund, where the Afghan side condemned the recent ”
Local authorities in Khost and Kunar provinces confirmed on Saturday that Pakistani planes carried out airstrikes in different parts of the provinces, killing five children and a woman.
Khama Press reported that officials in Khost province said Pakistani planes bombed the province’s Pesa Mila and Mir Safar areas on Friday night.
Local residents of the province said airstrikes were carried out in the Spera district of Khost province, in which 33 members of two families were killed.
Meanwhile, local residents of Shalton district of Kunar province said that five children and a woman were killed in an airstrike by Pakistan.
To this, neither the government of Pakistan nor the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan have commented on the bombings, but Pakistani media have said that the bombings have killed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Pashtun Islamist militant groups in those provinces. targeted. by Khama Press