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Explainer-Why are tensions flaring again between Afghanistan and Pakistan?

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26.11.2025

By Saeed Shah

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Tensions flared between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Tuesday as the Taliban accused Pakistani forces of air strikes in eastern Afghanistan, which killed 9 children and a woman, and injured four others.

There was no immediate comment from Islamabad. The bombardment followed a series of recent attacks in Pakistan, in which Islamabad says the militants came from Afghanistan.

Last month, dozens of people were killed in air strikes and ground fighting between the South Asian neighbours - their deadliest confrontation since the Afghan Taliban seized power in Kabul in 2021.

ACCUSATIONS AND COUNTER-ACCUSATIONS

Islamabad says that Pakistani militants are based in Afghanistan, from where they send attackers into Pakistan.

A suicide bomber killed 12 people in Islamabad this month, the first time civilians had been targeted inthe Pakistani capital for a decade. A day previously, another bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the main gate of a military school in South Waziristan district, near the Afghan border, killing........

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