The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan summoned the Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul and conveyed its strong and unequivocal protest regarding the violation of Afghanistan’s airspace and the aerial bombardment of civilian homes in Kunar, Paktia, and Paktika provinces.
Last night, Pakistan’s military regime conducted airstrikes on residential areas in certain parts of Kunar, Paktia, and Paktika provinces, resulting in the martyrdom of 36 civilians, including women and children, and the injury of 163 others.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan deems these attacks a flagrant violation of international law, humanitarian law, and the sovereign integrity of states, and condemns them in the strongest possible terms.
This is not the first instance in which Pakistan’s military regime has, in the absence of any credible evidence or substantiation, attributed security incidents, explosions, and attacks occurring hundreds of kilometers away from the Durand Line in various cities and other impregnable areas of Pakistan.
Rather, over the past several years, it has sought to obscure its own security and political failures by advancing unfounded allegations against Afghanistan and attempting to externalize its challenges.
It has repeatedly pursued the failed policy of addressing these issues through the use of force and military aggression.
Not only is such conduct unconducive to resolving the existing challenges, but it also seriously undermines the atmosphere of mutual trust, good-neighborly relations between the two countries, and regional security and stability.
