Eight individuals, all ladies and kids, have been killed on Monday in “reckless” air strikes by the Pakistani army within the border areas of Afghanistan, the Taliban authorities’s spokesman mentioned.

Border tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have risen because the Taliban authorities seized energy in 2021, with Islamabad claiming militant teams are finishing up common assaults from the neighbouring nation.

At “around 3:00 am (2230 GMT Sunday), Pakistani aircraft bombarded civilian homes” in Khost and Paktika provinces close to the border with Pakistan, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid mentioned in a press release.

The Taliban authorities “strongly condemns these attacks and calls this reckless action a violation of and an attack on Afghanistan’s sovereignty”, he added.

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The strikes come after seven Pakistani troops have been killed in an assault inside Pakistan territory on Saturday, for which the nation’s President Asif Ali Zardari vowed retaliation.

“Pakistan has decided that whoever will enter our borders, homes or country and commit terror, we will respond to them strongly, regardless of who it is or from which country,” he mentioned whereas attending the funeral prayers of the troopers, which included a lieutenant colonel.

Areas alongside the border have lengthy been a stronghold for militant teams resembling Pakistan’s home-grown Taliban group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which operates throughout the porous frontier with Afghanistan.

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Analysts say militants within the former tribal areas have grow to be emboldened because the Taliban’s return to energy, with TTP waging a rising marketing campaign towards safety officers.

The Taliban deny harbouring Pakistani militants.

In 2022, Taliban authorities mentioned Pakistani army helicopters carried out strikes alongside the Afghan aspect of the border killing a minimum of 47 individuals.

The TTP issued an official assertion denying that Monday’s strikes focused the group, saying their members function from inside Pakistan.

However, a TTP supply who spoke to AFP on situation of anonymity as a result of he was not authorised to talk to media mentioned the strikes in Paktika and Khost left a minimum of 9 individuals lifeless.

“A house has been attacked where two women and seven children have been killed and a child has been wounded” within the Barmal district in Paktika.

“A bombardment in the Pasa Mela area of Khost also has casualties.”