At least 42 people have been killed and 104 wounded in fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Tuesday. The latest death toll figures come as fighting between the two neighbours enters its sixth day.
The UN agency said the casualties included those caused by “indirect fire in cross-border clashes,” as well as those from air strikes, adding that the numbers were “preliminary.”
Meanwhile, Kabul said it had captured a Pakistani post in the Kandahar region. Pakistani security sources said air strikes had destroyed a military base in Nangarhar province in Afghanistan.
The military confrontation between the neighbours was set in motion last week after Kabul launched retaliatory strikes on Pakistan in response to Islamabad targeting militants in Afghanistan.
Kabul said the Pakistani army targeted civilians, a charge Islamabad rejects.
UNAMA has called for both sides to stop fighting and warned that the conflict has hindered aid agencies’ ability to provide assistance to civilians.
"Restrictions on movements in the border area due to the active conflict have reduced the capacity of humanitarian agencies and partners to deliver life-saving and other assistance in the most-affected areas," it said.
Approximately 16,400 households have been displaced by the fighting, at a time when many Afghanistanis are still recovering from successive earthquakes in August and September last year that killed more than 1,400.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari told parliament on Monday that Islamabad would not allow neighbouring territory to be used for attacks against it.
"The soil of Pakistan is sacred. We will not allow any entity, domestic or foreign, to use neighbouring territory to destabilise our peace," he said.
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Shahid Motahari Sub-Speciality Hospital in northern Tehran and parts of the Golestan Palace were bombed on day two of the U.S.‑Israel strikes. AnewZ Touraj Shiralilou is in Iran's capital city and said that the facility was flattened in an airstrike.
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