{"id":448126,"date":"2026-02-27T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448126\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:50:09","slug":"pakistan-strikes-kabul-as-afghan-taliban-escalate-cross-border-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448126\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan strikes Kabul as Afghan Taliban escalate cross-border attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We thought it was an earthquake, then we heard a loud explosion&#8217; &#8211; Kabul residentpublished at 06:08 GMT<\/p>\n<p>06:08 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\">Mahfouz Zubaide<br \/>News producer<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A resident of Dashti Barchi in Kabul\u2019s District 6, which is near the area reportedly targeted by last night\u2019s Pakistani airstrike, told me that his house shook violently due to an explosion caused by one of the strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> \u201cFirst, we thought it was an earthquake, because there was an earthquake in Kabul a few days ago,\u201d he said. \u201cThen we heard a loud explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The resident, who is not being named for safety reasons, added that people in Dashti Barchi immediately rushed outside and stayed awake throughout the night. \u201cNo-one slept after that. Everyone was afraid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that jets were seen flying over Kabul shortly after the explosion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWhen we saw the jets overhead, we realized they were Pakistani aircraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The targeted area, was about 4 to 5 kilometres from his home, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cMy wife and my parents were very scared. We were all awake the entire night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We thought it was an earthquake, then we heard a loud explosion&#8217; &#8211; Kabul residentpublished at 06:08 GMT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-448126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}