The Afghan Taliban regime has lodged a strong protest with Islamabad over the airstrike conducted by the Pakistani air force near the Pak-Aghan border on Tuesday, warning that territorial sovereignty was the red line for the Taliban, said Kabul’s foreign minister.
The Kabul regime summoned “Pakistan’s charge d’affaires in the afternoon and handed a strong protest note over Pakistani military plane bombings in district Bermal in Paktika province near the border just across Durand Line,” the statement said.
The strongly worded note condemned the Pakistani military’s aggression at a time when an emissary of the country’s government was in Kabul for talks with officials of the Afghan government.
It added that killing common people by “certain quarters” was an attempt to create distrust and division in relations between the two nations.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani side has far neither accepted nor denied the airstrikes in Paktika, near the Duran line that separates the two countries.
However, local media sources quoted a senior Pakistani security official as saying that their forces had carried out a series of airstrikes against terror hideouts inside Afghanistan.
He was further quoted saying that “at least 20 militants were killed in the attack.”
The latest escalation followed Saturday’s deadly assault by the TTP in South Waziristan, which resulted in the death of 16 paramilitary men of Pakistan’s Frontier Corps.
The chief of army staff, Gen Asim Munir, visited the place on Sunday and promised decisive action against the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan soon.
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