Kabul, Apr 28: A United Nations body today said “tens of civilians” were killed or injured in Afghanistan in strikes yesterday, echoing the assertion by the furious Taliban regime which described the government in Islamabad as a “slave” of “infidels”.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani military indulged in fresh shelling on various parts of Afghanistan today, prompting the Taliban regime to lodge a formal protest by summoning its Acting Ambassador to the Foreign Ministry in Kabul this evening.
Pakistani military yesterday violated a three-week-old ceasefire agreement by resorting to cross-border attacks using missiles and heavy artillery.
The attacks targeted multiple locations in Kunar Province border Pakistan, including the campus of Kunar University damaging the building and injuring at least 30 lecturers and students, according to Taliban authorities.
The Taliban authorities said at least seven people were killed and around 75 others wounded, many of them women and children.
They said the toll could rise as several of the injured remain in critical condition.
However, other sources said at least 13 civilians were killed and scores of others injured yesterday.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today said it has “documented dozens of civilians killed or injured” in yesterday’s Pakistani strikes in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province.
In a post on X, it said, “The international humanitarian law requires the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, including educational institutions.”
The Taliban regime’s Minister of Higher Education Mullah Nida Mohammad Nadeem, who visited the university campus in Kunar today, said the Pakistan government is a “regime that serves foreign, non-islamic interests”.
He added that Pakistan acts at the directions of “infidels”, to whom it is subservient.
The latest Pakistani strikes are part of a series of cross-border attacks that began in October last year.
Intervention by some regional countries resulted in a ceasefire, which was violated by Pakistan on February 21 when it again resorted to air strikes inside Afghanistan, killing dozens of civilians.
