Afghanistan says Pakistan air raids killed 13 people, including children

No immediate comment from Pakistan as Taliban says 11 children are among the dead in strikes on border provinces.Afghanistan has accused Pakistan’s military of killing at least 13 people, most of them children, in air attacks on the provinces of Kunar, Khost and Paktika.The attacks late on Tuesday were the deadliest in weeks and follow a period of relative calm at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Deadly attack on Pakistan outpost puts Afghanistan ceasefire at risklist 2 of 3Car bomb attack and ambush in northwest Pakistan kill at least 21 policelist 3 of 3Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of killing three civilians in ‘war crime’end of listZabihullah Mujahid, chief spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban government, said in a post on X that the victims of the attacks included 11 children, one woman and an elderly man.He said 14 other women and children were wounded.“We strongly condemn this humanitarian crime and act of aggression,” he added.There was no immediate comment on the strikes from Pakistan.Islamabad has previously claimed attacks in Afghanistan, saying it targeted fighters from the Pakistan-Taliban" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="1623" data-entity-type="organization">Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP.An official in the Khost province told the AFP news agency that a house in the Spera district was struck, killing nine people and wounding 10 others. In the neighbouring Paktika province, two residents told AFP that a separate attack killed three civilians in the Barmal district. The air raid hit a home, and those killed were children, one of the residents said.The air attacks came a day after suspected fighters from the TTP attacked a security post in the Hasan Khel area of northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bordering Afghanistan. The attack triggered an intense gun battle in which six members of the Federal Constabulary – a federal Pakistani paramilitary force – were killed and several others wounded, according to Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior.