No immediate comment from Pakistan as Taliban says 11 children are among the dead in strikes on border provinces. Published On 10 Jun 202610 Jun 2026Afghanistan has accused Pakistan’s military of killing at least 13 people, most of them children, in air attacks on the provinces of Kunar, Khost and Paktika.The attacks late on Tuesday were the deadliest in weeks and follow a period of relative calm at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listZabihullah Mujahid, chief spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban government, said in a post on X that the victims of the attacks included 11 children, one woman and an elderly man.He said 14 other women and children were wounded.“We strongly condemn this humanitarian crime and act of aggression,” he added.There was no immediate comment on the strikes from Pakistan.Islamabad has previously claimed attacks in Afghanistan, saying it targeted fighters from the Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP.An official in the Khost province told the AFP news agency that a house in the Spera district was struck, killing nine people and wounding 10 others. In the neighbouring Paktika province, two residents told AFP that a separate attack killed three civilians in the Barmal district. The air raid hit a home, and those killed were children, one of the residents said.The air attacks came a day after suspected fighters from the TTP attacked a security post in the Hasan Khel area of northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bordering Afghanistan. The attack triggered an intense gun battle in which six members of the Federal Constabulary – a federal Pakistani paramilitary force – were killed and several others wounded, according to Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior. Advertisement Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been fraught since the Taliban took power for a second time in 2021, with fighting escalating sharply in late Feb …
