India on Monday condemned Pakistan’s airstrikes on Afghanistan, calling it an “outdated apply” of Islamabad to “blame its neighbours for its personal inside failures”.
“Now we have famous the media studies on airstrikes on Afghan civilians, together with ladies and youngsters, by which a number of treasured lives have been misplaced. We unequivocally condemn any assault on harmless civilians.
It’s an outdated apply of Pakistan guilty its neighbours for its personal inside failures. Now we have additionally famous the response of an Afghan spokesperson on this regard,” an announcement issued by the Ministry of Exterior Affairs acknowledged.
46 killed in Pakistan airstrikes, declare Taliban
In December, Taliban claimed that 46 folks together with ladies and youngsters had been killed within the airstrikes carried out by Pakistan.
Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy spokesman for the Afghan authorities, was quoted by AP as saying that these killed within the strikes that focused 4 areas in Barmal, a district within the province of Paktika, had been refugees, including that six others had been additionally wounded.
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Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani claimed in an announcement that fifty folks, together with 27 ladies and youngsters, died within the strikes. He mentioned they had been “unarmed refugees” who fled to Afghanistan due to Pakistan’s offensive within the northwest.
The TTP — a separate group but in addition an in depth ally of the Afghan Taliban — additionally shared pictures, alleging they had been of kids killed in the course of the Pakistani operation.
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The strikes got here hours after Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan’s particular consultant for Afghanistan, traveled to Kabul to debate a spread of points.
Afghanistan’s Overseas Ministry in Kabul summoned the Pakistani envoy and lodged a robust protest over the strikes by Pakistan’s navy. In an announcement, it mentioned whereas a consultant of the civilian authorities of Pakistan was busy in talks with the Afghan officers, the strikes had been carried out by Pakistani forces to “create distrust within the relations between the 2 nations.”
It mentioned Kabul “won’t settle for the violation of the nation’s territory underneath any circumstances, and the nation is able to defend its independence and territory” and “such irresponsible actions will certainly have penalties.”
(With AP inputs)
