Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government has accused Pakistan of launching air strikes on its capital Kabul, in a major escalation of tensions with its longtime former backer.
Relations between the neighbours have deteriorated sharply in recent months amid mounting attacks in Pakistan’s western border provinces by militants based in Afghanistan, and Friday’s alleged strike threatens to plunge the two sides into an armed conflict.
After weeks in which Pakistan’s military has expressed increasing anger over the insurgency, Afghanistan’s defence ministry said on Friday that its neighbour had on Thursday night “violated the air space” over Kabul and also bombed a “civilian market” near the border.
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