Overview
- Taliban officials say a house in Khost was bombed overnight, killing nine children and a woman, with four more people injured in Kunar and Paktika.
- Pakistan’s military and government had not commented on the allegations at the time of the reports.
- The reported strikes followed a suicide blast at a Pakistani border security headquarters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that killed three and wounded eleven, with no claim of responsibility.
- Pakistan’s state television said the border attack was carried out by Afghans, and President Asif Sardari blamed the TTP for recent violence.
- Pakistan’s army separately announced killing 22 people in a near-border operation in Bannu as both countries trade accusations despite a fragile, foreign-brokered ceasefire after October’s deadly clashes.