Three civilians, including two children, were martyred and three others were injured on Wednesday when Afghan Taliban forces carried out unprovoked shelling on locals in a border area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district, according to state media.
The incident marks a renewed episode of cross-border aggression after a gap of over a month, following Pakistan’s Operation Ghazab Lil Haq launched in response to earlier unprovoked hostility from the Afghan side.
In a post on X, state broadcaster PTV News said, quoting security sources, that “Indian-backed Afghan Taliban unprovoked aggression on civilian population in the border village of Malak Shahin in Kat Kot area of Bajaur” martyred a woman and two children from the same house, while three were seriously injured, who were subsequently taken to the hospital for treatment.