Residents inspect the site of a building destroyed in what Taliban authorities said was a Pakistani drone attack that killed eight civilians, including three children, in Spera district of Khost province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Saifullah Zahir)
A building destroyed in what Taliban authorities said was a Pakistani drone attack that killed eight civilians, including three children, is seen in Spera district of Khost province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Saifullah Zahir)
Relatives sit at the graves of three children allegedly killed in what Taliban authorities said was a Pakistani drone attack that killed eight civilians in Spera district of Khost province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Saifullah Zahir)
Residents inspect the site of a building destroyed in what Taliban authorities said was a Pakistani drone attack that killed eight civilians, including three children, in Spera district of Khost province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Saifullah Zahir)
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Airstrikes that Afghanistan's Taliban government blamed on neighboring Pakistan struck two eastern provinces of the country, killing at least three people, wounding seven others and damaging homes, officials and witnesses said Thursday.
In Kabul, the foreign ministry decried the strikes that took place late Wednesday in Nangarhar and Khost provinces, calling them a “provocative act†by Pakistan and summoning the Pakistani ambassador in Kabul.
The Afghan Defense Ministry also condemned the strikes. “Such barbaric and brutal actions benefit neither sides; rather intensify the distance between the two Muslim nations and fuel hatred. These irresponsible activities will have consequences,†it wrote on the X social media platform.
Neither the Pakistani government nor the military commented on the alleged strikes.
Kabul of launching airstrikes in Afghanistan against suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, a militant group banned in Pakistan and blamed for some of that country's deadliest terrorist attacks.
In Nangarhar's Shinwari district, members of a family whose house was reduced to rubble sifted through the debris to try to recover what they could.
“They dropped the first big bomb on my house. My house was completely destroyed,†said Shah Sawar, a resident of Nangarhar’s Shinwari district. “First I pulled a child out of the rubble, then I pulled four children and a woman out.â€
Nangarhar’s deputy governor, Maulvi Azizullah Mustafa, said the strikes were fired by Pakistani drones. The Afghan foreign ministry said three people were killed and seven wounded in Nangarhar and Khost.
against suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban in Paktika province. Pakistan also did not acknowledge those strikes at the time. Kabul claimed hitting several points inside Pakistan in retaliation.
The latest violence comes a week after top diplomats from and pledged closer cooperation against terrorism. It also came three months after their diplomatic ties to improve bilateral relations.
However, relations between Islamabad and Kabul have remained tense since 2021, when the Afghan Taliban seized power, mainly over Kabul’s alleged support of the Pakistani Taliban, who have stepped up attacks on security forces and civilians in Pakistan in recent years.
Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of harboring the Pakistani Taliban, which is separate but closely allied to the Afghan Taliban. Kabul denies that, saying it does not allow anyone to use its soil against another country.
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