KABUL, March 2 — Explosions were heard in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, AFP journalists said, with the Taliban government saying they were responding to aerial Pakistan...
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— Pakistani security forces handout pic via Reutersand enjoy FREE RM10 & when you sign up using code VERSAMM10 with min. cash of RM100 today! T&Cs apply.KABUL, March 2 — Explosions were heard in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, AFP journalists said, with the Taliban government saying they were responding to aerial Pakistan attacks. A spokesman for Afghanistan’s defence ministry said that “air defence strikes were carried out against Pakistani aircraft in Kabul”. Months of cross-border clashes have flared again since Thursday, when Afghanistan launched an offensive along the frontier, with Pakistani forces hitting back on the border and from the skies. The renewed violence came after Afghan residents and officials said troops from both countries had been battling along the border, with the fighting coming alongside multiple strikes including the former US air base at Bagram. Earlier, residents in multiple areas bordering Pakistan told AFP of fighting, while the Afghan government said three people were killed overnight in drone strikes and shelling. North of the capital Kabul, air strikes “hit Bagram air base”, according to a resident who AFP is not naming for security reasons. A second resident said “it was very strong, which shook the area. There was smoke and fire coming out north of the airport”, describing the dawn raid as “very terrifying”. The provincial spokesman, Fazl ul Rahim Maskin Yar, said Pakistani jets “attempted to bomb” the base, but there were no casualties or damage. Pakistan acknowledged bombing key cities Friday including Kabul and Kandahar, which is home to Afghanistan’s supreme leader, but has not commented on Sunday’s strikes. The presence of security forces was boosted in central Kabul on Sunday evening, with increased checks on cars, an AFP journalist said. Late Sunday evening, Afghan officials claimed to have retaliated with strikes on multiple bases in Pakistan that caused “significant damage”, including in the major city of Rawalpindi, though there were no immediate Pakistani reports of such attacks. “Any further violations of our airspace or acts of aggression by hostile Pakistani elements will be met with a swift, decisive, and proportionate response,” the Afghan Ministry of Defence posted on X, with a video of a drone flying into the distance.Before dawn, AFP journalists in the capital heard an explosion followed by successive gunfire, with Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid saying anti-aircraft fire was being shot at Pakistani planes. Drones were also heard by an AFP journalist in the border province of Khost, while in Jalalabad city — between Kabul and the border — an AFP photographer saw a jet. The Afghan government’s deputy spokesman, Hamdullah Fitrat, said Pakistani fire had killed 36 civilians across multiple provinces since Thursday, which Islamabad has not commented on. In Kunar’s provincial capital Asadabad, an 18-year-old said his brother had been killed, a few months after getting married. “When the fighting started, we told him to come with us and leave the area, but he said: ‘I will stay and look after the house,’” said Sajid, who only gave one name.Multiple residents in Afghanistan’s Khost and Nangarhar provinces told AFP the two sides were engaged in sporadic clashes on Sunday afternoon.On Saturday, AFP spoke to Khost residents who had fled their homes near the frontier. “We demand from the international community and the whole world to put pressure on Pakistan to stop the war,” said 46-year-old displaced resident Javed, who only gave one name. Diplomatic efforts have failed to secure a truce, with Saudi Arabia and Qatar among those engaged in efforts to halt the fighting. Islamabad accuses Afghanistan of failing to act against militant groups that carry out attacks in Pakistan, which the Taliban government rejects. Many attacks have been claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan , a militant group that has stepped up assaults in Pakistan since 2021, the year the Taliban authorities returned to power in Kabul. This week’s escalation marked the first time that Pakistan has focused its air strikes on Afghan government facilities, analysts noted, a stark change from previous operations that it said targeted militants. Pakistan’s information minister, Attaullah Tarar, said 46 locations across Afghanistan had been hit by air strikes since its operation began.Islamabad said earlier 12 of its soldiers had been killed. Fitrat, Afghanistan’s deputy spokesman, said more than 80 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 27 military posts captured.Casualty claims from both sides are difficult to verify independently. The violence of recent days is the worst since October fighting killed more than 70 people on both sides, with land borders between the neighbours largely shut since.
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