Fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan's Taliban military entered its third day on Saturday, following overnight clashes as the international community expressed increasing concern about the conflict and called for urgent talks.

Pakistan has “once again deliberately targeted the residences of ordinary civilians in Khost and Paktika (provinces), resulting in the martyrdom of 19 civilians and injuries to 26 others,” Afghan government deputy spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said in a statement on US social media company X.

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Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have plunged in recent months. Land border crossings have been largely shut since deadly fighting in October that killed more than 70 people on both sides, before a fragile ceasefire was put in place. It was the worst fighting between the two countries since the Taliban took over Kabul in 2021.

Pakistán llevó a cabo una serie de ataques aéreos en Kabul y en otras dos provincias afganas la madrugada del viernes, anunció el portavoz del gobierno de Afganistán, horas después de que Afganistán l

Pakistan has launched Operation Ghazab lil-Haq against the Afghan Taliban following what it described as “unprovoked aggression” along the Durand Line, sharply escalating cross-border tensions between the two neighbours.

Pakistan has carried out a series of airstrikes on Taliban military installations in Afghanistan, including the capital Kabul, as tensions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border escalated sharply. The Friday,