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Daily Sabah
April 16, 2022

Pakistani rocket fire kills 45 Afghans, say Taliban

At least 45 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in airstrikes and artillery shelling by Pakistani forces along its border with Afghanistan, local Taliban officials said Saturday.

The attacks were carried out overnight in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost and Kunar provinces in the border areas between the two neighboring countries.

In Khost province, at least 40 civilians were killed and 20 wounded after jets bombarded four villages in Seperah district overnight, said a Taliban official who did not wish to be named.

The victims are civilians from three families who immigrated from the neighboring Pakistani region of Waziristan following a military operation there several years ago, the official added. Twenty-nine were from one family, he said.

In Kunar, Pakistani forces have been shelling the area using heavy artillery for the past three days on Marwara, Shelton and Nari districts, the acting provincial head of the Taliban’s information and culture department Najibullah Hanif told Deutsche Press-Agentur (dpa).

Five civilians, including children, were killed and one wounded in the Friday night attacks, he said.

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On Friday, seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in an ambush in the country’s North Waziristan tribal region. Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned that there would be retaliation.

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Pajhwok Afghan News
April 16, 2022

Casualties as Pakistan pounds civilian homes in Khost, Kunar

Pakistani security forces have allegedly carried out airstrike on Waziristan refugees in Sperai district of southeastern Khost province and in the Shaltan district of eastern Kunar province, inflicting casualties on people, according to local residents on Saturday.

MalakJamshaid, a tribal elder of Waziristan refugees, told Pajhwok Afghan News the airstrike happened on Friday night in the PasaiMelai, Mandati and Koni areas, targeting civilian homes.

He said 14 people, including women and children, were killed and 21 others wounded in the blitz.

Rasoul Jan, another elder of the Waziristani refugees, told Pajhwok Afghan News the airstrike happened at 2:30am when people were preparing for sahari (pre-dawn meal for fasting).

He claimed Pakistani jets bombarded three villages in which 41 people were killed and 21 others injured.

He said the deceased were common civilians and included 27 people from one family and nine from another family.

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Another official in the province, who wished to go unnamed, said that Pakistani aircrafts bombarded four villages including Mirchar, Mandta, Kani and Shidi in Spera district of Khost.

People suffered casualties in the airstrikes in Mandta and Kani villages, the official said.

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Elsewhere, six members of a family were killed in an airstrike of Pakistani forces in Shaltan district of Kunar province on Friday night.

Eyewitnesses say that the incident took place in Gargo area of the district.

They say that five children and a woman were killed in the incident.

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Pajhwok Afghan News
April 16, 2022

Airstrikes in Kunar, Khost: Kabul summons Pakistan envoy

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Saturday summoned Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan Mansoor Ahmad Khan over Pakistani airstrikes in Khost and….