Heavy preventing between Afghanistan and Pakistan | EUROtoday

After an offensive by the Afghan Taliban, Pakistan’s air power attacked navy services within the neighboring nation in a single day. Targets within the Afghan capital Kabul and the provinces of Kandahar and Paktia have been additionally bombed. This was confirmed by the spokesman for the Islamist Taliban authorities, Sabiullah Mujahid, on Platform X. There have been no stories of victims of the air strikes. The Pakistani aspect spoke of dozens of Taliban fighters killed.

Afghanistan had beforehand attacked Pakistani positions alongside the disputed border. The Afghan Ministry of Defense mentioned in an announcement on X that 55 Pakistani troopers have been killed. Pakistani positions within the border space had been taken.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari wrote final evening on X that the response of the Pakistani armed forces was complete and decisive. His nation is not going to make any concessions concerning peace and territorial integrity. Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar mentioned on X that 133 Afghan Taliban fighters have been killed in counterstrikes. Weapon depots, tanks and navy installations, amongst different issues, have been destroyed in assaults. The info offered by either side couldn’t initially be independently verified.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres known as on Afghanistan and Pakistan to de-escalate in gentle of latest mutual assaults. The events ought to attempt to resolve all variations by means of diplomatic channels, mentioned Guterres, based on his spokesman Stéphane Dujarric.

Just final weekend, Pakistan attacked positions in Afghanistan. The UN Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA) subsequently introduced that 13 civilians had died within the air strikes and 7 others have been injured. Taliban spokesman Sabiullah Mujahid described the next assaults on Pakistan as a counteroffensive.

Relations between the neighboring nations Afghanistan and Pakistan have just lately deteriorated massively. Fighting solely broke out within the fall. According to the UN, 70 Afghan civilians died in Pakistani assaults. Peace negotiations brokered by the Gulf Emirate of Qatar and Turkey didn’t convey a few sustainable answer to the battle.

Islamabad accuses Kabul of harboring terrorists who perform assaults in Pakistan. Kabul denies this.

In explicit, the group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – broadly often called the Pakistan Taliban – and a regional department of the Islamic State (IS) have been finishing up an increasing number of assaults in Pakistan for years. According to the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, the variety of terrorist assaults in Pakistan rose to just about 700 in 2025.

The United Nations additionally wrote in a just lately revealed report that the federal government in Kabul offers a positive setting for varied terrorist teams within the nation and helps the Pakistani Taliban. The ruling Taliban denies this.

The neighboring nations share a border that’s round 2,400 kilometers lengthy and was created in 1893 between what was then British India and the Emirate of Afghanistan. The course of the de facto border often called the “Durand Line” is disputed between the nations.