The Afghan Taliban has accused Pakistan of violating Kabul’s “sovereign territory”, describing it as an “unprecedented, violent, and provocative act”.
The allegation comes after two loud blasts were heard in the city late on Thursday.
Pakistan had also bombed a civilian market in the border province of Patika, in Afghanistan’s south-east, the Taliban Defence Ministry said in a statement on Friday. Locals there told the BBC’s Afghan service that a number of shops had been destroyed.
Pakistan has neither confirmed nor denied that they launched an attack inside Afghanistan.
However, during a press conference held on Friday, a top general alleged Afghanistan was being used as a “base of operation for terrorism against Pakistan”, adding it would take “whatever necessary measures” to protect the country.
