{"id":22558,"date":"2026-09-24T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/taliban-spokesman-calls-pakistan-airstrikes-on-afghanistan-a-crime\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:00:17","slug":"taliban-spokesman-calls-pakistan-airstrikes-on-afghanistan-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/taliban-spokesman-calls-pakistan-airstrikes-on-afghanistan-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Spokesman Calls Pakistan\u2019s Overnight Strikes a &#8216;Crime&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban administration, said four Afghan civilians were killed in Pakistani air strikes on parts of the provinces of Kandahar, Paktia and Khost, and that the victims were \u201cordinary countrymen.\u201d He described the incident as a clear violation of principles and a \u201ccrime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Mujahid, the Taliban administration condemned the strikes and said it would take a firm stance against what it called Pakistan\u2019s \u201caggression.\u201d He also claimed Pakistan had previously made allegations about drones crossing from Afghanistan in order to justify the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban spokesman added that such attacks could provoke anger among the people of Afghanistan and have serious consequences. No further details have yet been released about the exact locations of the strikes or the identities of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Kandahar, Paktia and Khost are provinces bordering or near the Durand Line, areas that in recent years have repeatedly witnessed border tensions and sporadic clashes between Pakistani forces and the Afghan side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid calls Pakistan\u2019s overnight airstrikes on Kandahar, Paktia and Khost a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22558","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\/22558","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=22558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}