KABUL — A fragile regional truce shattered overnight after Pakistani military aircraft crossed into Afghan airspace and launched a series of lethal bombardments across three eastern provinces, killing at least 13 civilians.

According to official statements released Wednesday morning, June 10, 2026 by Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid, the overnight air raids directly targeted civilian residences in the volatile border provinces of Kunar, Khost, and Paktika.

The strikes have inflicted a devastating toll on local families. Afghan authorities confirmed that the 13 fatalities include 11 children, one woman, and an elderly man. An additional 14 women and children were wounded in the blasts and are currently receiving medical attention for severe injuries.

Local emergency responders and provincial sources reported that the strikes occurred around midnight. In the Spera district of Khost province, a single strike completely leveled a home in Manya village, killing nine members of the same family. Similar devastation was reported in the Barmal district of Paktika, where three civilians were killed, and in Kunar's Shultan district, where an airstrike claimed the life of a young girl and severely injured her mother.

"We strongly condemn this humanitarian crime and act of aggression," Mujahid said in a statement published on social media, accusing Pakistan's military apparatus of violating the nation's sovereignty.

While the Pakistani government and military leadership have not released an official public statement regarding the operation, regional security officials speaking on the condition of anonymity indicated that the strikes targeted specific installations. According to these sources, the aerial operation aimed to neutralize "hideouts and other facilities" utilized by anti-Pakistan militant groups, primarily the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Islamabad has long maintained that TTP networks use Afghan border regions as safe havens to plan, coordinate, and launch cross-border terror campaigns inside Pakistan—claims that the ruling administration in Kabul has consistently denied, labeling the militant insurgency as an internal Pakistani issue.

The sudden escalation effectively derails a highly fragile, internationally mediated peace process. Following a wave of devastating border skirmishes earlier this year that displaced over 100,000 people, the two neighboring states had agreed to a ceasefire in mid-March. That truce, brokered through the diplomatic intervention of Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and subsequent bilateral talks in China, had brought a brief halt to the worst border crisis the region had seen in years.

With tactical units on high alert along the frontier, the civilian casualties from this latest operation threaten to ignite a wider, more volatile military confrontation between the neighbors.