{"id":22310,"date":"2026-09-21T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/pakistani-airstrikes-kunar-paktika-three-dead\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:30:15","slug":"pakistani-airstrikes-kunar-paktika-three-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/pakistani-airstrikes-kunar-paktika-three-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Airstrikes in Kunar and Paktika Leave Three Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were killed and four others wounded in Pakistani airstrikes on the provinces of Kunar and Paktika. The attacks were carried out early on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban administration, condemned the strikes and called them a repeat of a &#8220;war crime.&#8221; In a post on X on Monday, 30 Saratan, he said Pakistan&#8217;s military leadership had launched the attack again to divert public attention from security failures inside the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration spokesman also warned that the attacks &#8220;will not go unanswered.&#8221; He gave no details about how any possible response might take place or any further information on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The provinces of Kunar and Paktika are located near the border with Pakistan, and tensions and cross-border attacks have been reported in these areas in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan&#8217;s Kunar and Paktika provinces killed three people and wounded four others, Taliban officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}