The bombing affected a rehabilitation hospital, causing several casualties.

Late on Monday, Afghan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denounced that the Pakistani military conducted airstrikes on Kabul.

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“The Pakistani military regime has again violated Afghan airspace, attacking a drug rehabilitation hospital, resulting in the death and injury of several patients receiving treatment,” he said in a post on X.

“We strongly condemn this crime and consider such an act to be against all accepted principles and a crime against humanity,” Mujahid added.

The conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan is rooted largely in disputes over their shared border and the presence of militant groups operating across it. The main territorial issue involves the Durand Line, a 2,640-kilometer boundary drawn in 1893 between British India and Afghanistan.

Successive Afghan governments have refused to formally recognize the line as an international border, arguing it divided ethnic Pashtun communities.

Pakistan, which inherited the border after its creation in 1947, considers the Durand Line its legitimate frontier. The disagreement has periodically fueled diplomatic tensions and border clashes.

Security concerns have intensified the conflict in recent decades. Pakistan has long accused militant groups based in Afghanistan of carrying out attacks on its territory, particularly the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a Pakistani insurgent group responsible for numerous attacks against the Pakistani state. Islamabad says TTP fighters use Afghan territory as a safe haven.

The government of Taliban, which returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021 after the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces, has denied harboring the group but has struggled to fully control militant activity along the mountainous border.

Relations have also been strained by cross-border military operations, refugee issues and trade disruptions.

Pakistan has periodically carried out airstrikes or artillery attacks targeting suspected militants inside Afghanistan, prompting protests from Kabul.

At the same time, Pakistan hosts millions of Afghan refugees from decades of war, a humanitarian and political issue that has worsened tensions during deportation campaigns.

These disputes—combined with fragile security conditions in both countries—have kept relations volatile and occasionally violent along the frontier.

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Sources: Reuters – Al Jazeera – X

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