Tensions increase between Taliban and Pakistan over attacks

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High tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan after Pakistani military air strikes to Afghanistan killed 47 civilians during the weekend. Over the past few months, Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), an armed militant group, increased attacks on Pakistani security forces from holy places in Afghanistan.

Afghan officials said the death toll had increased to 47 after Pakistani military attacks in the provinces of East Afghanistan Kunar and Khost. Victims include most women and children.

Taliban officials in Kabul and Islamabad are struggling to complete cross -border attacks, and have warned Islamabad after the death of civilians in the morning attack.

Last year, the Pakistani government involved the Taliban in negotiating the peace agreement with TTP, but it failed right after a ceasefire for a month between Islamabad and TTP. The Taliban, meanwhile, has not made significant efforts to help Islamabad decide the agreement with TTP to stop them attacking Pakistan.

The Afghan Islamic Emirates condemned with the strongest conditions that may occur bombings and attacks that have occurred from Pakistan on the Land of Afghanistan,” Government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters in an audio message.

This is cruelty, and it opens the way for hostility between Afghanistan and Pakistan. We use all options to prevent repetition of such attacks and call for our sovereignty to be respected, “Mujahid said.

Every counterattack from the air, as experienced last week, there is no need to target innocent civilians, both local residents or refugees. Such incidents will not only kill trust but will also lead to more militancy,” Omar Samad, one Senior colleagues at the Atlantic Council of Atlantic and former Afghan Ambassador to France and Canada, told DW.

Pakistan learns in a difficult way that their hardline ideology is more meaningful to the Taliban than thank you for years of support and approval from Pakistan,” Husain Haqqani, Director for South Asia and was in the Hudson Institute and former Pakistani ambassador to the United States , to DW.

The Taliban called the Pakistani ambassador in Kabul on Saturday and registered their protests against military air strikes in Afghanistan. Afghan officials claimed that most civilians were killed when Jet Pakistan entered Afghanistan. Pakistan has denied claims to carry out air strikes.

Unama is very concerned about the reports of civilian casualties, including women and children, as a result of air strikes in the province of Khost & Kunar,” wrote the mission on Twitter, adding that officials worked to determine facts and verify losses.More ad mre attacks on Pakistani troops from TTP are being carried out on the border. Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in ambush by militant groups near the Afghan border on Thursday.

The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday: “In recent days, the incident along the Pak-Afghan border has increased significantly, where, Pakistani security forces are targeted from across the border.” He added that the attack was carried out “with impunity” and that Islamabad had repeatedly asked the Afghan authority to act to stop them, unsuccessful.

The soldiers were killed in the North Waziristan, which bordered Khost, where air strikes were reported. The Pakistani military on Thursday said that 128 armed militants had been killed near the border area with Afghanistan since January. Meanwhile, they claim that 100 troops have been killed by militants during the same period.