Pakistan air attack on 2 eastern provinces of Afghanistan
Local sources report the air strikes of Pakistan Army in Khost and Paktia provinces in eastern Afghanistan. |
According to the regional office of Tasnim news agency, local sources It is said that around 3:00 a.m. today, local time, Pakistani fighters attacked areas in the cities of “Spireh” and “Barmal” in the provinces of “Paktika” and “Khost”.
According to eyewitnesses, Pakistan’s airstrikes targeted the house of one of Mehsud’s ethnic leaders in South Waziristan in the area of ”Barmal” city in Paktika province, and this attack resulted in the death of his two wives and five children, including three boys. and has two daughters.
Sources say that this attack targeted Waziristan immigrants, but some Pakistani media claim that one of the leaders of “Tehrik Taliban Pakistan” (TTP) ) was killed in this attack.
This attack took place after two days ago, one of the TTP-affiliated groups targeted a military complex in North Waziristan in a suicide attack.
Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said yesterday that the armed opposition groups of that country are using Afghanistan’s soil to carry out attacks inside that country.
According to him, some of the facilitators of these attacks have been traced and Islamabad has shared this issue with the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
© | Webangah News Hub has translated this news from the source of Tasnim News Agency |