The authorities of Afghanistan have communicated this Wednesday that at least thirteen people have lost their lives, eleven of them minors, and another 14 have been injured in incidents registered in three provinces of the country, which have been attributed to "bombings" from Pakistan.
"The Pakistani Army, which has overstepped, violated Afghan airspace again last night and bombed civilian homes in the provinces of Kunar --northeast--, Jost --southeast--, and Paktika --east--," has denounced the spokesman for the Government of Afghanistan, Zabihulá Muyahid, in a message published on social networks in which he has pointed out that due to these attacks, eleven children, a woman, and an elderly man have died.
The main Taliban spokesman added that, in addition to the deceased, 14 injured have been counted, including women and minors, for which he has "strongly" condemned this "crime against humanity" and "aggression."
Hours earlier, local authorities in Paktika province, cited by the Afghan news agency Jaama Press, reported the deaths of at least seven people, including seven minors, due to the explosion of an unexploded ordnance.
According to these reports, the device exploded when a local resident was collecting scrap metal and tried to open the projectile to take advantage of the metal it was made of, which caused the detonation and also left four people injured.
The border strip between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been a focus of tension and instability for years, largely due to the actions of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group, in a context marked by Islamabad's accusations against India and the Afghan Taliban for their alleged support of this organization, something that both New Delhi and Kabul have rejected.
In this scenario, at the end of last February, the conflict intensified again after a series of air attacks by Islamabad against supposed strongholds of the TTP, known as the Pakistani Taliban, and the Islamic State in Afghan territory, which led the Taliban-controlled authorities to respond with offensives in the border area.