Pakistan air strikes kill 46 in Afghanistan, Kabul says

The strikes were the latest spike in hostilities on the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with tensions escalating since the Taliban seized power in 2021. Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP that late on Tuesday Pakistan bombarded four areas in the Barmal district of eastern Paktika province. "The total number of dead is 46, most of whom were children and women," he said, adding that six more people were wounded, mostly children. Neither Pakistan's foreign ministry...