Politics Kabul: Renewed Pakistani air strikes in Afghanistan
Amid severe tensions, Pakistan has once again carried out airstrikes on Afghan soil, according to reports from Afghanistan.
25.11.2025, 09:47
SDA
Ten civilians were killed in the attacks in three provinces in the east of the country, said Sabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Islamist Taliban ruling Afghanistan, on the X platform.
Pakistan has not yet officially commented on the attacks. However, intelligence circles confirmed several air strikes on Afghan soil to the news agency DPA.
The airstrikes follow a bloody conflict between the two countries that flared up last month. The Taliban blamed Pakistan for explosions in the capital Kabul at the beginning of October, whereupon Taliban security forces attacked Pakistani military checkpoints in the Pakistani border provinces. Heavy fighting ensued.
A ceasefire was agreed in October through the mediation of Qatar and Turkey, but no comprehensive agreement was reached between the two neighboring countries. Islamabad accuses Kabul of providing protection to the Pakistani Taliban movement (TTP), which has repeatedly carried out attacks in Pakistan. Kabul denies this.
Attacks in Afghanistan after attack in Pakistan's capital
The latest airstrikes follow two suicide attacks in Pakistan this month. Only on Monday, three soldiers were killed in an attack in the city of Peshawar in the north-west of the country. Before that, in mid-November, there was a rare suicide attack in the Pakistani capital Islamabad that left twelve dead. In response, Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif had already announced the possibility of new air strikes in Afghanistan.
Taliban spokesman Mujahid also announced this morning that Afghanistan "strongly condemns this aggression and this crime". He announced a reaction from Kabul: Afghanistan considers "the defense of its airspace, its land and its people as its legitimate right" and will "show the required response at the appropriate time".
