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.

A Taliban spokesman reported that Pakistani air strikes in Afghanistan's Paktika province killed 46 people, mostly women and children. The Taliban condemned the attack as 'barbaric' and vowed defense.

Afghanistan's Taliban government says a deadly aerial attack by Pakistani military on its Paktika province killed at least 46 people. The Taliban condemned the attack and vowed to retaliate.

AS the state engages with the Afghan Taliban regime diplomatically, more forceful measures are also being employed to hit terrorist targets inside Afghanistan. Perhaps this seemingly paradoxical ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children, a Taliban government official said Wednesday, raising fears of further ...

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Dec. 25 (UPI) --The Pakistani military conducted air raids potentially killed dozens while targeting alleged Pakistani Taliban militants in the rural Paktika Province of Afghanistan Tuesday night.

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But much still fell to the Taliban in August 2021 when the US-trained Afghan military crumbled and surrendered to the Islamist militants, according to US defence officials. The Pentagon says US ...

Bombardment by Pakistani military aircraft in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province on Tuesday killed at least 46 people, most of whom were children and women, the Afghan Taliban said ...