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Pakistan’s airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Paktika province on October 17 have been condemned by the Taliban as a “clear violation of the Doha understanding" and a deliberate attempt to derail ongoing talks, internal sources within the Taliban’s defence ministry in Kabul have told CNN-News18.

The attacks, reportedly carried out by Pakistani drones and F-16s targeting the Argun and Barmal districts, have drawn a furious reaction from the Taliban’s top brass. Sources close to the ministry, led by Mullah Yaqoob Mujahid, view the military action not as a legitimate counterterrorism move but as a “humiliation tactic" directed at the interim Afghan administration.

Taliban officials in Kabul firmly maintain that none of the bombed sites hosted fighters from the Tehrik-i-T

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