Sulaiman Irfan was asleep when loud explosions and the roar of fighter jets jolted him awake in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city.
It was one of several areas hit in overnight strikes by Pakistan’s military as clashes between the two neighbours escalated.
“The explosions that targeted the airport area of Kandahar woke us up, and then we heard fighter jets flying overhead,” Mr Irfan, 35, who runs a pharmacy in the city, told The National.
The strikes, which also hit the capital Kabul, eastern Paktia province and other areas, marked the latest round of tit-for-tat violence after Taliban forces launched on Pakistani military installations late on Thursday following an earlier aerial bombing campaign by Islamabad inside Afghanistan this week that the Taliban said killed several civilians.
Relations between the two countries have steadily worsened since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, with Islamabad accusing Kabul of harbouring militants hostile to Pakistan, particularly the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has waged a long insurgency against the Pakistani state – a charge Afghan authorities deny.
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