Ramadan Bombings

Pakistan’s military carried out air strikes against militant positions inside Afghanistan in the early hours of Sunday, hitting what Islamabad described as seven camps belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and the Islamic State’s Khorasan affiliate along a 2,600-kilometre frontier, the second such cross-border operation in four months and a sharp escalation that Kabul swiftly condemned as a violation of its sovereignty and an attack on civilian areas.

Afghanistan’s Defence Ministry said the strikes hit a religious school and residential homes in the border provinces of Nangarhar and Paktika, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries, including women and children.

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