Two Killed, Eight Injured in Pakistan Artillery Strikes on Afghanistan After Brief Ceasefire
Pakistan Afghanistan conflict. Image courtesy: AI
At least two people were killed and eight others injured in Pakistan’s artillery strikes inside Afghanistan, after Islamabad resumed its military operations after a brief ceasefire announced ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
Pakistan’s military fired 85 artillery shells into the Kunar province of Afghanistan over the last 24 hours, Kabul’s Information and Culture Department director Zia-ur-Rehman Spinghar said on Wednesday (March 25, 2026).
Spinghar said Afghan forces, in response, destroyed three Pakistani posts in the Sarkano district’s Nawapas area along the Durand Line, killing one Pakistani soldier.
On Sunday (March 22), the ruling Taliban accused the Pakistan military of firing on Afghan civilians in Kunar and Paktika provinces, killing one person and injuring another.
A local Pakistani official in the northwest accused Afghan forces of initiating the exchange of fire in multiple areas.
The brief truce between the two nations, resulting in a week-long ceasefire, was brokered by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Qatar, after Kabul accused Islamabad of targeting a civilian hospital in Kabul, killing over 400 persons.
Pakistan had then denied targeting civilians, saying it struck an ammunition depot.
Meanwhile, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said it too had resumed attacks inside Pakistan after the Eid ceasefire it had announced unilaterally.
The TTP, different from the Afghan Taliban, was designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States and the United Nations previously.
Pakistan has accused Kabul, where the Taliban came to power in a short and swift military takeover in 2021, of fueling the TTP attacks on its military and sheltering the thousands of militants who carried out cross-border attacks on its soldiers.
Kabul has always denied Pakistan’s claims in this regard and has vowed to retaliate if Islamabad continues to target its territory and people with its aerial strikes and artillery firing.
