The Taliban government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had summoned the Pakistani embassy’s chargé d’affaires in Kabul and expressed its protest over Pakistan’s airstrikes in Paktika.
Hafiz Zia Ahmad, the spokesman for the Taliban government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote on his Facebook page that he had “strongly condemned this aggression by the Pakistani army” to the Chargé d’Affaires of the Pakistani Embassy. He added: “Protecting Afghanistan’s territorial integrity is a red line for the government and such irresponsible actions have consequences.”
The Taliban government in Afghanistan said that 51 people, most of them women and children, were killed in a Pakistani airstrike last night in the Barmal district of Paktika.
The AFP news agency quoted Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid as saying that four areas in Paktika province had been targeted