Killing children, killing women and the elderly is not bravery. It is not courage to destroy people's homes, he said.

A Taliban government official says Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children.

The UN statement said Tuesday’s airstrikes were a violation of international law and called for an investigation. “International law obliges military forces to take necessary precautions to prevent civilian harm,

The interim Taliban administration in Kabul on Tuesday night claimed that the Pakistani military carried out airstrikes, the second such cross-border action by Islamabad since March, in the Barmal district of eastern Paktika province.

In response to the attack, the Taliban's Ministry of Defence has pledged retaliation, asserting their right to defend their land and sovereignty.

It is the first public admission by a senior Taliban leader regarding the presence of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan operatives in the country

When the Taliban seized power in Kabul in August 2021, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed delivered a triumphant news conference at the Torkham crossing with Afghanistan. He claimed that the Taliban’s swift ascendance to power would create “a new bloc” and the region would reach great global importance.