Pakistan’s military rejects UN report alleging hundreds of civilian deaths in strikes on Afghanistan
Pakistan says its strikes targeted TTP hideouts and militants, while UNAMA reported 499 civilians killed and 1,216 wounded in the fighting.
- Pakistan's military on Friday rejected as "baseless" a recent United Nations report claiming cross-border operations killed nearly 500 civilians and wounded over 1,000 in Afghanistan between October and June.
- The deadliest incident occurred on March 16, 2026, when a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul killed 269 civilians and injured 122, according to United Nations figures.
- Gen. Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry defended the strikes, asserting Pakistan targeted militant infrastructure while recording 3,145 "terrorism incidents" since January and claiming 2,084 militants were killed during the same period.
- Accusing the Afghan Taliban of sheltering militants, Chaudhry alleged the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army and the Pakistan Taliban directed suicide attacks in Pakistan's insurgency-hit Balochistan province.
- Islamabad pursues "strategic depth" in Afghanistan, treating it as a security perimeter, while the fenced 2,600km Durand Line continues to sever longstanding tribal and social ties between the nations.
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Pakistan’s military rejects UN report alleging hundreds of civilian deaths in strikes on Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military on Friday rejected as “baseless” a recent U.N. report that said Pakistani cross-border military operations killed nearly 500 civilians and wounded over 1,000 in neighboring
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Pakistan's military rejects UN report alleging hundreds of civilian deaths in strikes on Afghanistan
Pakistan’s military has rejected as “baseless” a recent U.N. report that said Pakistani cross-border military operations killed nearly 500 civilians and wounded over 1,000 in neighboring Afghanistan between October and June.
Pakistan rejects UN findings on civilian deaths in cross-border strikes
Pakistan’s military on Friday rejected UN findings that its cross-border military operations killed and wounded hundreds of Afghan civilians, insisting that its strikes targeted only hideouts and infrastructure used by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Speaking at a televised news conference, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry, the Pakistani military’s spokesman, described the findings of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) as “basel…
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