Islamabad has declared that the two countries are in “open war”, and on Sunday, its forces were reported to still be holding a 32-square-kilometre (12-mile) area of Afghan territory in the southern Zhob sector, according to two Pakistani security officials. Despite the clashes with Pakistani forces, on Saturday, Afghan government spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi took to social media to condemn the attacks on Iran and Iran’s subsequent attacks on countries in the Gulf. “Iran and the involvement of the United States and Israel across the board in the Middle East is a much larger, more important, significant event”, Samad said, “and it is taking away bandwidth from anything else happening across the world, including in the neighbourhood of Pakistan, Afghanistan”.
Author: Al Jazeera Staff
Published at: 2026-03-01 23:09:38
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