Pakistan’s air force today launched fresh bombing raids on Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan, with de facto Taliban authorities reporting four dead in the capital and Islamabad confirming that night operations were carried out.
“Continuing its offensive, the Pakistani military regime once again bombed Kabul, Kandahar” (south), as well as the border provinces of “Paktia and Paktika” and “other” areas, government spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said via X, adding — without giving a more specific casualty count — that “women and children” were killed.
A senior Pakistani security forces officer confirmed in the early hours of this morning to French News Agency, on condition of anonymity, that bombing had been carried out in Afghanistan, including Kabul. “Specific targets linked to the Pakistani Taliban” (PTI) were hit, this source said, referring to an armed group that has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly attacks in Pakistan, without going into further detail.
In Kabul, four people were killed and fifteen others were wounded when “civilian houses” in the eastern part of the city were hit, a Taliban police spokesman said.
“In Gujar sector, in 21the district of Kabul, civilian houses were hit in a Pakistani regime bombing that killed four people and injured fifteen others,” Khalid Zadran said via X, adding that the victims included women and children.
French News Agency team that went to the scene saw a house completely destroyed and about ten others extensively damaged, with roofs and walls collapsed. Security forces had been deployed and shocked residents were on the streets.
Multiplying hostilities
In Kandahar, capital of the southern province of the same name where the Afghan Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Ahunzada, lives, withdrawn from the world, Pakistani raiders targeted a fuel storage facility of the Kam Air airline near the airport, de facto authorities said.
The company “supplies fuel to civilian aircraft and those of the UN,” according to government spokesman Mujahideen.
Pakistani aircraft also flew into Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, but were fired upon by Afghan anti-aircraft defences, according to a local army spokesman.
Islamabad has for years accused Kabul of providing a safe haven for the KTP (the Taliban Movement in Pakistan), an organization with an ideology identical to but distinct from the current government in Afghanistan, and the Islamic State in Khorasan (ISIS). The de facto authorities deny this.
In October 2025, fighting broke out with dozens of deaths, leading to a near-complete closure of the land border. After mediation efforts, tensions appeared to be easing.
But the conflict between the two neighbours flared up and worsened on February 26 26, when Afghanistan launched a ground offensive on the border in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes. Islamabad also then spoke of operations against the JIT.
In reaction, Pakistan announced that it was declaring “open war” on the de facto Taliban government, bombing Kabul and Kandahar on February 27th. Pakistani authorities have denied that the strikes targeted civilians.
Since then, clashes have multiplied along the border.
Seven civilians, including children, were killed by Pakistani gunfire in border areas in eastern and southeastern Afghanistan between Tuesday and Thursday, according to authorities and medical sources.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM, part of the UN system) centre, home to Afghan citizens deported en masse from Pakistan, was “heavily damaged at the Torkham border crossing in Afghanistan”, according to a statement from the institution.
Pakistan “conducted targeted operations guaranteeing in principle that no civilian would be injured in these operations,” Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Hussain Adrabi claimed yesterday during a weekly press briefing in Islamabad.
Pakistan has also reported fresh Afghan attacks in recent days.
According to an account by the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) as of 5March, at least 56 Afghan civilians, including 24 children, have died since 26February, when hostilities on the border intensified.
The fighting has caused the forced displacement of 115,000 people in Afghanistan, according to the UNHCR
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