Blatant assault on sovereignty: India shreds Pak over air strikes on Afghanistan

"Pakistan must credibly, irrevocably abjure support for cross-border terrorism": MEA says Indus Waters Treaty remains in abeyance

New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): India on Friday doubled down on Pakistan for its support to cross-border terrorism and strongly condemned the airstrikes that happened from Pakistan into Afghanistan, in which several civilian lives, including women and children, were lost.Responding to a query while addressing a press conference here in the national capital on Friday. Jaiswal said that India's stance on the trea

Pakistani air strikes kill 36 civilians and injure 163 in Afghanistan, says Afghan Govt

The Taliban-led government stated that Pakistani cross-border air strikes killed 36 Afghan civilians and injured 163 others across Paktia, Paktika, and Kunar provinces. While Islamabad scrambled to justify the aggression as a retaliatory anti-terror operation, the unilateral assault has thoroughly shattered recent China-mediated bilateral peace understandings.

The civilian cost of Pakistan’s counter-terrorism war in Afghanistan

In late February, Pakistan launched ‘open war’ on Afghanistan with Operation Ghazal lil-Haq (Wrath for the Truth), marking the most violent period of fighting between the two countries since the Taliban takeover in 2021. For Pakistan, it was a war of retaliation against the Tehreek-e-Taliban, or TTP, a militia sympathetic to the Afghan Taliban. Pakistan has long accused Afghanistan of offering safe harbour to the TTP ‘Tashkeel,’ or administrative structures and combat units, and was fed up with inaction. (image) Would you like us to summarize articles for you? ARTICLE SUMMARY Pakistan’s counterterrorism operations along the Afghanistan border have increasingly placed civilians in the crossfire, with airstrikes and military actions killing women and children, destroying ...

'Locals rushed to rescue, then came second strike': How Pakistan’s late-night strikes in Afghanistan unfolded

'Locals rushed to rescue, then came second strike': How Pakistan’s late-night strikes in Afghanistan unfolded

India condemns Pakistan's airstrikes in Afghanistan, reaffirms support for Kabul's sovereignty

India has strongly denounced Pakistan's recent airstrikes inside Afghanistan, describing the attacks as a serious violation of Afghan sovereignty that has claimed the lives of several civilians, including women and children. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the cross-border strikes represent an unacceptable act of aggression that undermines regional peace and stability.