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“Pakistan has bombed the substance depot of backstage hose Kam Air near Afghanistan's Kandahar airport,” the Taliban said connected Friday (March 13, 2026), arsenic the worst struggle in years betwixt the South Asian neighbours flared again contempt efforts to calm tensions.
The fighting erupted past period with Pakistani aerial strikes wrong Afghanistan that Islamabad said targeted militant strongholds. Afghanistan called the strikes a usurpation of sovereignty arsenic it launched retaliatory attacks.
"The institution (Kam Air) supplies substance to civilian airlines arsenic good arsenic to United Nations aircraft," Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said.
“Pakistan besides carried retired bombings in different areas, including the capital Kabul, with women and children among those killed arsenic civilian homes were targeted successful immoderate locations,” helium said, adding that the aggression would "not spell unanswered".
Before the latest attack, neither broadside had reported immoderate Pakistani aerial strikes connected Afghanistan successful caller days and crushed warring on the 2,600 km (1,600 mile) borderline had besides tapered off.
Pakistan's subject did not respond to a petition for comment. Militancy has been a bony of contention betwixt allies-turned-foes Pakistan and Afghanistan, with Islamabad saying Kabul provides harmless haven to militants executing attacks connected Pakistan. The Taliban, however, denies the allegation and says militancy is Pakistan's internal problem.
Reuters had reported connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) that mediation efforts by China, which had been urging an extremity to the violence, had helped easiness the warring betwixt the countries.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi had besides said that Islamabad and Beijing were engaged successful a "dialogue process" on Afghanistan.
