Pakistan says it's killed almost 300 Afghan Taliban
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I'm Alex Ritson and at 16 hours GMT on Friday the 27th of February, these are our main stories. Pakistan says it's killed almost 300 Taliban officials and militants in Afghanistan as the conflict between the South Asian neighbours escalates. Another purge at the top of China's military as President Xi punishes any sign of perceived disloyalty. Also in this podcast, people in Gaza mark Ramadan under a shaky ceasefire after two years of war.
Before the war, God be praised, we were very well off. Now, God be praised that we are alive.
And we'll hear from Cuba about the consequences of the US oil blockade. Let's start the podcast in South Asia and the sharp escalation in hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan, which is causing alarm across the region. That's the sound of the emergency services responding to a series of explosions in the Afghan capital Kabul overnight on Thursday. Pakistani warplanes also bombed the city of Kandahar, another stronghold of the country's Taliban government. These people in Kabul described their experience.
We were all asleep when the plane came in very low.
As soon as I heard the sound of the aircraft, I got up. I saw the plane descend and drop two bombs. Then it went back up again. It was around 2am. All of us, including the women, ran downstairs.
By the grace of God, we didn't suffer any loss of life, but the doors were broken and the windows of the house were shattered.
Many people were injured by broken glass, and until late at night, people were being treated at the same clinic. It was a very terrifying incident, and everyone is extremely distressed because of these problems. Pakistan's military says it hit 22 Afghan military targets. A spokesperson claimed nearly 300 Taliban officials and militants were killed while losses on the Pakistani side are reported to number a dozen. Earlier on Thursday, Afghan forces attacked Pakistani border troops in what the Taliban government described as retaliation for previous deadly airstrikes. Islamabad has repeatedly accused the Afghan Taliban of supporting militants accused of attacks in Pakistan. The attacks are the most significant development in the ongoing tensions between the two countries, which had agreed to a ceasefire last October following a week of deadly clashes.
Here's the former Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations, Maliha Lodi.
Pakistan's patience has completely run out with the Taliban regime. You will recall that since the Taliban returned to power almost five years ago, there's been a surge in attacks on Pakistani territory, Pakistani security personnel and civilians by terrorist groups that are residing in Afghanistan.
The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his country will respond to aggression with courage. I spoke to Yama Baris in Kabul and began by asking him what the situation was like there. Kabul last night experienced a chaotic night, I would say, and there were sounds of explosion, aircraft and also gunfires. But by the dawn, it was calm, it is still calm. But still, the spokesperson of Taliban appeared in a press conference and he said that during the day, at some points in the east of Afghanistan were bombed again by the Pakistani aircrafts. And also, there are some reports of minor clashes along the Durand line. What are the people you're talking to saying? Well, the people of Afghanistan, if you speak to them in the capital Kabul or in the provinces, they are concerned about what's happening.
They also have some concern that what is to come. But stronger than that concern, you can see anger and fury everywhere. And they believe that the war will not take them anywhere. They cannot find any solution by force. And they think the best way out is to sit on the table and discuss the problems and find a way out.
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