Afghanistan says three killed in Pakistani air attacks

By Al Jazeera Staff, AP and Reuters. Published On 21 Sep 202621 Sep 2026.

Key points

• Pakistan's Ministry of Information cautioned Saturday that the country could hit fighters inside Afghanistan in response to attacks in Pakistan.
• The dispute centres on violence in Pakistan, with Islamabad accusing Kabul of harbouring armed groups that stage cross-border attacks from Afghan territory.
• The blast and subsequent gun battle killed at least 21 individuals, mostly police officers, Pakistani office-holders noted.
• At least three individuals have been killed in northeastern Afghanistan in Pakistani air raids, Afghan office-holders noted.
• Afghanistan's Taliban administration denies the charges and states the violence is Pakistan's internal difficulty.

Kunar provincial spokesperson Farid Dehqan informed Al Jazeera that the air attack hit the Nurgal district at concerning 4am local time on Monday (23: 30 GMT Sunday), killing three individuals and injuring four. Kunar is a mountainous province in northeastern Afghanistan.

At least one house in Kunar province was hit in the attacks, killing three members of the same family and injuring four others, Taliban deputy spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat remarked in a post on X.

"In the Barmal district of Paktika province, two locations were bombarded, destroying one shop and one unoccupied house, with no casualties reported, " he remarked.

There was no immediate comment from Pakistan regarding the alleged attacks. It threaten to reignite tensions between the neighbours after almost three months of relative calm.

When the two sides fought their worst clashes in years, relations between the former allies have been strained since February.

Notably, the dispute centres on violence in Pakistan, with Islamabad accusing Kabul of harbouring armed groups that stage cross-border attacks from Afghan territory.

In practice, the air raids on Monday come days after a Pakistan Taliban faction remarked it carried out a bombing attack on a mosque at a police facility in Kohat, northwestern Pakistan. The blast and subsequent gun battle killed at least 21 individuals, mostly police officers, Pakistani office-holders noted.

Pakistan's Ministry of Information cautioned Saturday that the country could hit fighters inside Afghanistan in response to attacks in Pakistan. The ministry blamed the Kohat attack on fighters it remarked were based in Afghanistan.

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